Urban legend: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
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An urban legend or urban myth is a kind of modern folklore consisting of stories often thought to be factual by those circulating them. (The term is often used with a meaning similar to that of the expression "apocryphal story"). Urban legends are not necessarily untrue, but they are often distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized. Despite the name, a typical urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban setting. The term is designed to differentiate them from traditional folklore in preindustrial times.
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How to say "Urban legend" in other languages:
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(Chinese) | 都市傳奇 |
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(Japanese) | 都市伝説 |
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(German) | Moderne Sagen |
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(Spanish) | Leyenda urbana |
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(French) | Légende urbaine |
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(Italian) | Leggenda urbana |
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Goldschlager is a Swiss cinnamon schnapps, a clear liqueur with very thin yet visible flakes of gold floating in it. The actual amount of gold is extremely small and serves as a sort of novelty. An urban legend associated with this drink is that the gold flakes cause small incisions in one's...
internet many rumors have been transmitted via email, as is the case with various hoaxes and urban legends...
. Adams is especially noted for his ability to research urban legends. There are urban legends...
Jan Harold Brunvand (born 1933) is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah in the United States who is best known for spreading the concept of the urban legend, or modern folklore... the topic, starting with The Vanishing Hitchhiker in 1981. This book brought urban legends to popular...
Penis captivus is a possible urban legend describing an event that allegedly happens in rare instances during heterosexual intercourse when the muscles in the vagina clamp down on the penis much.... Penis captivus in popular culture Mentioned in the 1998 film, Urban Legend . Mentioned in the...
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Dhúirt bean liom gur dhúirt bean leí is an Irish language term sometimes used to explain the origins of myths and urban legends. It translates as a woman told me that a woman told her that... It combines myth and legend with Chinese whispers to produce an erroneous story that if it had any fact...
George Dantzig (born 8 November 1914) is a mathematician who introduced the simplex algorithm and is considered the "Father of linear programming". Dantzig became a prototype of a famous urban legend, when he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. He accidentally solved two problems that the...
The Harris levels are levels created for the interactive computer game DOOM by Eric Harris, one of the two teen gunmen in the Columbine High School Massacre. An urban legend spread that these levels were designed to look like the halls of the high school, populated with representations of Harris's...
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