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Některé shodné motivy městských legend v Bulharsku a v České republice [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2020
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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Mistikasi dalam Urban Legend: Film Horor di Indonesia Pasca Orde

open access: yesJurnal Ceteris Paribus, 2023
Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menjabarkan pergulatan pembuatan film horor berupa kelahiran dan perkembangannya pada masa pasca Orde Baru. Film horor pasca Orde Baru mengambil latar perkotaan dan menggunakan tokoh atau sosok profesional, atau pelajar muda
Yusuf Kurniawan
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Polskie urban fantasy. Szkic o mieście i miejskości

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica, 2021
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

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2007
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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Studenten strooien hete centen voor het volk. Stedelijke identiteit en de geschiedenis van een omstreden herinnering in Leiden (1841-2016)

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2018
Legend has it that students in the Dutch university town of Leiden used to throw coins in the street for the less well-off citizens. Picking up the coins, these risked burning their fingers: the students had heated the coins in a skillet.
Bart Van der Steen, Peter Burger
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Evaluation of the Cartographical Quality of Urban Plans by Eye-Tracking

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
This paper describes a study of the evaluation of cartographic quality of urban plans in the Czech Republic using eye-tracking. Although map visualization is a crucial part of the urban planning process, only a few studies have focused on the evaluation ...
Jaroslav Burian   +2 more
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Legends of Organ Theft: The Moral Dilemma of Organ Donation

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2007
Legends and rumors of organ theft became a global phenomenon in the beginning of the 80s, with the information originating from the “third world” countries. Victims where poor and powerless, typically children. The rumor engaged a series of actions from
Dragana Antonijević
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Fact-checking strategies to limit urban legends spreading in a segregated society

open access: yesApplied Network Science, 2019
We propose a framework to study the spreading of urban legends, i.e., false stories that become persistent in a local popular culture, where social groups are naturally segregated by virtue of many (both mutable and immutable) attributes.
Marcella Tambuscio, Giancarlo Ruffo
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Geomorphology of the historic centre of the Urbs (Rome, Italy)

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2021
Based on long-lasting multidisciplinary and multitemporal investigations, in 2016 the first geomorphological map of the central area of Rome was presented. It introduced innovative solutions for cartographic restitution of urban landforms.
Francesca Vergari   +3 more
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La trama è un sintomo? Come i folkloristi studiano le leggende metropolitane (traduzione di Luca Cortesi)

open access: yeseSamizdat, 2023
Italian translation of Siuzhet – ėto simptom? Kak fol’kloristy izuchaiut gorodskie legendy by Anna Kirziuk.
Anna Kirzjuk
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