Legend tripping : a contemporary legend casebook /

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"Explores the practice of legend tripping, where individuals or groups travel to a site where an urban legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is depicted throughout vernacular (contemporary and historical) culture and an expression of humanity's interest in the frontier bet...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: McNeill, Lynne S. (Editor), Tucker, Elizabeth, 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, 2018.
Series:University Press of Colorado e-book collection.
Subjects:
Urban folklore > United States.
Legends > United States.
Culture and tourism > United States.
Haunted places > United States.
Supernatural.
Légendes > États-Unis.
Ethnotourisme > États-Unis.
Lieux hantés > États-Unis.
Surnaturel.
supernatural.
Culture and tourism
Haunted places
Legends
Supernatural
Urban folklore
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lynne S. McNeill and Elizabeth Tucker
  • Early studies / Elizabeth Tucker
  • Legend-tripping in Ohio / Bill Ellis
  • Adolescent legend trips as teenage cultural response / Patricia M. Meley
  • Legend-trips and satanism / Bill Ellis
  • Playing with fear / S. Elizabeth Bird
  • Shame old roads can't talk / Tim Prizer
  • Ostensive healing / Carl Lindahl
  • Contemporary ghost hunting and the relationship between proof and experience / Lynne S. McNeill
  • "There's an app for that" / Elizabeth Tucker
  • Living legends / Lynne S. McNeill.

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