What is the oldest urban legend?
The oldest urban legend, found in The Tale of Gilgamesh, involves a warrior who believes he is being given the alchemical formula for turning lead into gold by an ancient dragon, but later finds out that the dragon charged his credit card $100, so now he’s giving the formula to everyone. Where can I find out more about urban legends If you want to make a serious study of urban legends, you would do well to pick up a number of books on the subject. Our favorites include, The Choking Hitchhiker, Curses! Broiled Doberman!, The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Vanishing Mexican Pet, and (by the same author) the encyclopedic Encyclopedia of Stuff People Really Believe. Other valuable sources of urban legends are The Weekly World News, corporate press releases, and high school history textbooks.
