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The Heart Failure Frequent Flyer: An Urban Legend [PDF]
Clinical Cardiology, 2009 Mills RM.
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The Underground Galleries in the City of Cahul „Even Today They Remain an Enigma” [PDF]
Dialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură, 2022 e dialogue takes place on the sidelines of one of the most interesting discoveries of recent years in the area of the old city of Cahul. Ion Ghelețchi, doctor in history, associate professor and vice-rector at the State University “B.P.
Aliona GRATI, Ion GHELEȚCHI
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The transformation of contemporary analyses of oral folklore: Fairy tale versus fantasy [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010 The study focuses on contemporary forms of folklore and their relationship to literary forms like Fantasy, Sci-fi, Horror and Fantasy Game. The first problem is the specification of the terms and the classification of the internal structure of these ...
Otčenášek Jaroslav
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Man-Eating Teddy Bears of the Scrub: Exploring the Australian Drop Bear Urban Legend
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017 Urban legends are contemporary forms of folklore that are often used to provide lessons in morality or explicate local beliefs, dangers, or customs. In Australia, one such tale describes fiendish, carnivorous, blood-sucking koala-like animals that launch
Catherine Livingston +2 more
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Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2021 Marginalized and queer heroes are being recognized in the resurgence of various types of characters in contemporary hero narratives. In challenging the normative conventions, there are heroic values in the ambiguous presentation of their character which ...
Mary Ann Alcantara Illana
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Identity and Identification in Campus Lore [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 As a form of modern urban legend, school legends have become a symbol of campus culture and are spread through the internet and orally. These school legends, which are based on some real historical elements and are mixed with a bit of spirituality and ...
Wei Jiachen
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Zegar, bohater legendy miejskiej
Autobiografia, 2021 Jakub Kazimierz Haur in his encyclopedia Skład abo Skarbiec znakomitych sekretów oekonomiej ziemiańskiej (Kraków 1689) in the chapter devoted to chronometers quoted an anecdote about the 15th-century astronomical clock in St Mary’s Church in Gdańsk ...
JOANNA PARTYKA
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Representation of Urban Myth-Making in Social Media
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2022 The article is devoted to the problems of representation of urban myth-making in social networks. The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the representation of urban myth-making in social networks on the example of myth-making activity ...
Darya V. Meretina, Irina V. Kucheruk
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The Legend of the Old Man and the Packet of Jaffa Biscuits
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010 The urban legend that tells of how a young person ate by mistake some biscuits belonging to an old man sitting on the same bench in a Belgrade park is a transformation of an urban legend whose British version features an elderly British lady and a young ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Social Studies of Science, 2014 Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends.
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