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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Other Authors: Tucker, Elizabeth 1948- (Editor, HerausgeberIn.), McNeill, Lynne S. (Editor, HerausgeberIn.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan Utah State University Press [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban folklore.
Supernatural.
Legends.
Haunted places.
Culture and tourism.
Haunted places > United States.
Culture and tourism > United States.
Legends > United States.
Urban folklore > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
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
  • 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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