Urban Legends

Introduction

Urban legends are accounts belonging to the folklore contemporary are a kind of legend and lore, often related to a kind of superstition, which, although unlikely to contain supernatural elements or are presented as chronic actual events that occurred today. Some are based on real events, but they are exaggerated, distorted or mixed with dummy data. Circulating through the word of mouth, e-mail or media such as newspapers, radio, television or Internet (Zacher, pp. 1).

The same urban legend can have many versions, usually located in the vicinity of those who tell and receive. For their adaptation to industrial society and the modern world are the qualification of "urban" that opposes those legends, having been the subject of belief in the past have lost their validity and identify with the past. Often, the narrator asserts that the protagonists were known urban legend or relatives of someone close. For this reason, in English are also known as FOAF (friend of a friend such 'stories of the friend of a friend').

Since the late twentieth century, Internet has contributed significantly to the spread of urban legends, especially through email. The adaptations of them in the network, in addition to the entire above, are characterized by: add phrases with catastrophic alerts, citing reliable sources (media, state forces, etc.). Pray that the information is disseminated to prevent more people are affected

Folk art is the art which is formed from a culture which is indigenous or by people belongs to the laboring trades. In comparison with the fine art, the folk art is mainly decorative, useful and effective rather than purely artistic or aesthetic. Furthermore, the material culture is a term which shows the relationship between the social relations and the artifacts (Jan, 2002). The material culture is used by historians and often explained in the material history which shows the understanding of the ancient objects with the purpose to know how a specific or the certain culture was functioned and organized in the past.

Discussion

The urban legend is at the limit of credibility. All events include fake, some take elements of reality in a true story. Therefore, the urban legend is usually counted as an event if true or at least plausible. This requires that the characters are mere archetypes anonymous, "a man", "a woman", "a couple" or "an acquaintance of a friend," which the narrator of the urban legend does not know personally, but always situated scenarios specific (a particular city, street, country) that contribute to make it believable. Often, the protagonist is a "friend of a friend," relatively close to the listener, but not so feasible to consult the facts. Over time, the elements of the narrative are transformed to make it more attractive and impressive.

Morals of Urban Legends

The most important feature of urban legends is its international character. The story of the diver who is accidentally picked up by a fire and the plane which dropped it on fire causing his death, with minor variations in structure in different parts of North ...