If you should go at midnight : legends and legend tripping in America /

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"Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They have set forth in search of a profound para...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Debies-Carl, Jeffrey S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2023]
Subjects:
Legends > United States.
Urban folklore > United States.
Teenagers > United States.
Supernatural.
Légendes > États-Unis.
Adolescents > États-Unis.
Surnaturel.
supernatural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
Legends
Supernatural
Teenagers
Urban folklore
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: A prelude to the journey. Of legends and legend trips
  • The varieties of ostensive experience
  • Part II: The preliminal stage. Legend telling
  • Preparations and an uncanny journey
  • Part III: The liminal stage. Rites and rituals
  • Close encounters of the supernatural kind
  • Part IV: The postliminal stage. The return
  • Telling the tale
  • Part V: At journey's end. The past and future of legend tripping.

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