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"This exhaustive and compellingly readable reference work offers alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, legend themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre."--Publisher's description. No library descriptions found. |
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Though it would have been a very different book if written a few years later: while it does post-date many of the changes in the *dispersion* of urban legends that the Internet and other modern information technology has created, and effectively discusses those changes, it is not quite up to the mark in the changes in *research* that have occurred - there are quite a few legends in here, for example, that he concludes are purely apocryphal, that a simple google search will now bring up primary audiovisual sources for.