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Curses! Broiled Again!
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Jan Harold Brunvand
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-08-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends
Language: en
Pages: 484
Authors: Jan Harold Brunvand
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-10-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulous
The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Jan Harold Brunvand
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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"Here he [the author] looks in detail at a dozen rampant and long-lived examples of this vigorous category of contemporary folklore, tracing their historyies, v
American Folklore
Language: en
Pages: 812
Authors: Jan Harold Brunvand
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-24 - Publisher: Routledge

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Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 art
The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Jan Harold Brunvand
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-10-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend'