Simon Young, "The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends"
English | ISBN: 1496839463 | 2022 | 270 pages | PDF | 18 MB
English | ISBN: 1496839463 | 2022 | 270 pages | PDF | 18 MB
In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including “the Choking Doberman,” “the Eaten Ticket,” and “the Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right.
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