Who starts urban legends?
• Average people misremembering and retelling a story, • Average people misunderstanding a story or thinking a joke or supposition is a true story, • Wacky college students, and • Jan Harold Brunvand. What is a tell-tale sign that a story might be an urban legend? If someone relates an anicdote that’s interesting and worth repeating, it’s probably an urban legend. If the story is told by a man and relates to his fishing or sexual prowess, it is likely a category #3 urban legend (see the first question on the page). 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 sub
