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Zegar, bohater legendy miejskiej
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
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 Mohave Rattlesnake—And How it Became an Urban Legend
This short but information-laden and richly illustrated book provides a summary of the biology and behavior of the Mohave rattlesnake.
K. Kizer
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The Heart Failure Frequent Flyer: An Urban Legend [PDF]
Mills RM.
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The Legend of the Old Man and the Packet of Jaffa Biscuits
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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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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Některé shodné motivy městských legend v Bulharsku a v České republice [PDF]
The presented article identifies and compares several shared motifs of urban legends in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. The legends are classified into following thematic groups: 1) mysterious narratives and encounters with preternatural creatures ...
Rosina Kokudeva
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Polskie urban fantasy. Szkic o mieście i miejskości
Fantastyka miejska cieszy się coraz większym zainteresowaniem czytelników, pozostając jednocześnie na marginesie badań naukowych. Artykuł miał na celu skonkretyzowanie, z czego wywodzi się fantastyka miejska oraz jakie są jej cechy konstytutywne, a ...
Barbara Szymczak-Maciejczyk
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Sewer Alligators: Urban Legends as Cognitive Maps
Following the reports of sewer alligators in the 1930s, the story has built up over the decades and become a bona fide urban legend. These (reports) are based upon stories of alligator, and other wild animal sightings in rather unorthodox locations ...
Ljubomir Hristić
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