London Urban Legends

Author : Scott Wood
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752493800

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London Urban Legends by Scott Wood Pdf

How long has a corpse been staring out at passengers on the tube? Was London Bridge really shipped abroad by an American thinking he'd bought Tower Bridge? Did the Queen really mix with the crowds as a princess on VE Day? And did Hitler actually want to live in Balham? Where are there razor blades hidden and where did all these parakeets come from? Did they really belong to Jimi Hendrix? Urban legends are the funny, frightening and fierce folklore people share. Just like the early folk tales that came before them, which were attempts to explain the spiritual world, these tales are formed from reactions to spectacular events in the modern world, and reflect our current values. From royal rumours to subterranean legends, Scott Wood has researched and written about them with a sense of wonder, humour and a keen eye. He finds the truth, the myth and the lies amongst these tales.

Author : Scott Wood
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752493800

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London Urban Legends by Scott Wood Pdf

How long has a corpse been staring out at passengers on the tube? Was London Bridge really shipped abroad by an American thinking he’d bought Tower Bridge? Did the Queen really mix with the crowds as a princess on VE Day? And did Hitler actually want to live in Balham? Urban legends are the funny, frightening and fierce folklore people share. Just like the early folk tales that came before them, these tales are formed from reactions to spectacular events in the world, and reflect our current values. From royal rumours to subterranean legends, Scott Wood has researched and written about them with a sense of wonder, humour and a keen eye. He finds the truth, the myth and the lies amongst these tales.

Author : Gillian Bennett,Paul Smith
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106018883352

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Urban Legends by Gillian Bennett,Paul Smith Pdf

Presents the basic stories behind urban myths and legends from around the world, along with examples of each, and groups them by theme, which includes city life, horror, accidents, disease, animals, sex, merchandise, murder, and the supernatural.

Author : E. Dearnley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Horror tales, English
ISBN : 0712353763

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Into the London Fog by E. Dearnley Pdf

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. A jilted lover returns as a demon to fulfill his revenge in Kensington, and a seance becomes a life and death struggle off Regents Canal. In the borough of Lambeth, stay clear of the Old House in Vauxhall Walk and be careful up in Temple--there's something not right about the doleful, droning hum of the telegram wires overhead . . . Join Elizabeth Dearnley on this atmospheric tour through the Big Smoke, a city which has long fueled the imagination of writers of the weird and supernormal. Waiting in the shadowy streets are tales from writers such as Charlotte Riddell, Lettie Galbraith, and Violet Hunt, who delight in twisting the urban myths and folk stories of the city into pieces of masterful suspense and intrigue. This collection will feature a map motif and notes before each story, giving readers the real-world context for these hauntings and encounters, and allowing the modern reader to seek out the sites themselves--should they dare.

Author : Carrie E. Benes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271037653

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Urban Legends by Carrie E. Benes Pdf

"Explores the role of the classical past in the construction of urban identity in late medieval Italy. Focuses on the appropriation of classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate the regimes of various Italian city-states"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307387028

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The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd Pdf

From the author of Chatterton and Shakespeare: A Biography comes a gripping novel set in London that re-imagines an infamous 19th-century Shakespeare forgery. Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for Children, are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents. Reading Shakespeare is the siblings’ favorite reprieve, and they are delighted when an ambitious young bookseller comes into their lives claiming to possess a ‘lost’ Shakespearea play. Soon all of London is eagerly anticipating opening night of a star-studded production of the play not knowing that they have all been duped by charlatan and a fraud.

Author : Carrie E. Benes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271037660

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Urban Legends by Carrie E. Benes Pdf

Between 1250 and 1350, numerous Italian city-states jockeyed for position in a cutthroat political climate. Seeking to legitimate and ennoble their autonomy, they turned to ancient Rome for concrete and symbolic sources of identity. Each city-state appropriated classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate its regime as a logical successor to&—or continuation of&—Roman rule. In Urban Legends, Carrie Bene&š illuminates this role of the classical past in the construction of late medieval Italian urban identity.

Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496839442

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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends by Simon Young Pdf

In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598847215

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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes] by Jan Harold Brunvand Pdf

This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.

Author : Granger T Barr
Publisher : Granger T Barr
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Haunted Great Britain: Ghosts, Hauntings, Urban Legends, 25 Landmarks & Myths Of London, United Kingdom by Granger T Barr Pdf

Haunted Great Britain: Ghosts, Hauntings, Urban Legends, 25 Landmarks & Myths Of London, United Kingdom London is often recognised as the most prestigious and magnificent city in the world, with its historic buildings, castles, museums, parks, and lively streets. However, London, like every other city, has a nasty underbelly. After dark, some ancient buildings take on a gloomy and haunted appearance, resonating with grisly tales and eliciting uneasiness in visitors. If you have a robust heart then get this book now. The strange and fascinating facts and stories contained in this book are based on real-life occurrences that took place in some of London's most haunted locations. 25 haunted landmarks The London Underground Network Haunted pubs, theatres, hospitals and more! GET THIS BOOK!

Author : Antony Clayton
Publisher : Historical Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Urban folklore
ISBN : 1905286287

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The Folklore of London by Antony Clayton Pdf

Author : Gail Barbara Stewart
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Urban folklore
ISBN : 9781601523235

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Urban Legends by Gail Barbara Stewart Pdf

Describes common urban legends, including how they can form, why they are popular, and how modern technology allows urban legends to spread around the world.

Author : Jody Enders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226207889

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Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends by Jody Enders Pdf

Part of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the stage ends and where real life begins. This ambitious and bracing study explores fourteen tales of the theater that are at turns dark and dangerous, sexy and scandalous, humorous and frightening—stories that are nurtured by the confusion between truth and fiction, and imitation and enactment, until it becomes impossible to tell whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life. Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a beheading scene? Was an unfortunate actor driven insane while playing a madman? Did a theatrical enactment of a crucifixion result in a real one? Did an androgynous young man seduce a priest when portraying a female saint? Enders answers these and other questions while presenting a treasure trove of tales that have long seemed true but are actually medieval urban legends. On topics ranging through politics, religion, marriage, class, and law, these tales, Enders argues, do the cultural work of all urban legends: they disclose the hopes, fears, and anxieties of their tellers. Each one represents a medieval meditation created or dramatized by the theater with its power to blur the line between fiction and reality, engaging anyone who watches, performs, or is represented by it. Each one also raises pressing questions about the medieval and modern world on the eve of the Reformation, when Europe had never engaged more anxiously and fervently in the great debate about what was real, what was pretend, and what was pretense. Written with elegance and flair, and meticulously researched, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends will interest scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature, history, theater, performance studies, and anyone curious about urban legends.

Author : Neil Arnold
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752492452

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Kent Urban Legends by Neil Arnold Pdf

Do motorists pick up a phantom hitchhiker on Blue Bell Hill during stormy nights? Does Satan appear if you dance round the Devil's Bush in the village of Pluckley? Do big cats roam the local woods? And what happens if you manage to count the 'Countless Stones' near Aylesford? For centuries strange urban legends have materialised in the Garden of England. Now, for the first time, folklorist and monster-hunter Neil Arnold looks at these intriguing tales, strips back the layers, and reveals if there is more to these Chinese whispers than meets the eye. Folklore embeds itself into a local community, often to the extent that some people believe all manner of mysteries and take them as fact. Whether they're stories passed around the school playground, through the internet, or round a flickering campfire, urban legends are everywhere. Kent Urban Legends is a quirky and downright spooky ride into the heart of Kent folklore.

Author : Mikel J. Koven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : IND:30000116602255

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Film, Folklore, and Urban Legends by Mikel J. Koven Pdf

From Alien to When a Stranger Calls, many films are based on folklore or employ an urban legend element to propel the narrative. Films, Folklore and Urban Legends explores the convergence of folklore with popular cinema studies and focuses on the study of urban legends and how these narratives are used as inspiration for a number of films. Beginning with a general survey of the existing literature on folklore/film, this book addresses discourses of belief, how urban legends provide the organizing principle of some films, and how certain films "act out" or perform a legend.