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The nail in the skull and other Victorian urban legends /
"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 rarel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1:The baby picnic
- 2: Beetle eyes
- 3: The bosom serpent
- 4: Buried alive
- 5: The cautious druggist
- 6: Child pie
- 7: The chimney boy
- 8: Chloroformed!
- 9: Covert Catholics
- 10: Cycling afflictions
- 11: Death dice
- 12: Devil take me!
- 13: Do you know her?
- 14: Downie's slaughter
- 15: Dressing the workhouse corpse
- 16: Drugged on a train
- 17: The eagle and the baby
- 18: Egg ring
- 19: Familiar enemies
- 20: Fish ring
- 21: The galvanic convict
- 22: The ghost in search of help
- 23: Ghost wager
- 24: Ghostly donation
- 25: Hands in the muff
- 26: Harem prisoner
- 27: Hero survives
- 28: Hollow tree death
- 29: Human sausages
- 30: I lost the ring here
- 31: I'm Jack the Ripper!
- 32: Immured Lovers
- 33: The injured garotter
- 34: Jolting the coffin
- 35: The judge and the foreman
- 36: The lady and the ring
- 37: The lawyer and the poisoned cakes
- 38: The long pack
- 39: Message in a hat
- 40: A million postage stamps - 41: The mistletoe bride
- 42: A modern Jonah!
- 43: Nail in the coffin
- 44: The nail in the skull
- 45: The omnibus driver's holiday
- 46: One little piggy
- 47: Paying for his burial
- 48: The pickpocket's ring
- 49: Poison duel
- 50: Prayers and the thief
- 51: The red hand!
- 52: The returned watch
- 53: Selling sovereigns
- 54: Sewer montsters
- 55: She's my daughter?
- 56: Shooting at a ghost
- 57: The shoplifter's dilemma
- 58: The skeletons that eloped
- 59: The Spanish prisoner
- 60: The suicide club
- 61: Swallowed up
- 62: The tell-tale eye
- 63: Tick tock
- 64: There's gold in those sewers
- 65: Tunnel kissing
- 66: The vanishing lady
- 67: Watch the clock
- 68: Wild thing
- 69: The wrong bed
- 70: The wrong trousers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index