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  • pp. 104–105) – others suggesting that they are related kinds of pranks (Brunvand 2001, p. 331; Glimm 1983, p. 187). Brown & Brown (2013) state that "A fool's...
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  • everything dubious is an urban legend. Easiest check would be to go through Brunvand's collections, and see if he lists cryptids. I've got them all, and I don't...
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  • one of them identified per discipline, one not? That'll confuse readers. DavidOaks (talk) 13:38, 5 November 2010 (UTC) Brunvand, Jan Harold. “A process...
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  • and folkminnen (Swedish) among others.” This is an indirect quote from Brunvand, Jan Harald, ed. (1996). American Folklore, an Encyclopedia. New York,...
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  • the phrase in (1)historical linguistics and in (2)folklore. Jan Harold Brunvand defines the two usages thus: “A process by which people either (1) mispronounce...
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  • neither do we. Two potentially quite useful sources, however, are Jan Harold Brunvand and Snopes, which will probably discuss these laws in relation to urban...
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  • This simply isn’t true. Panatti, Poundstone, “Cecil Adams”, Tris Coffin, Brunvand...when I start adding in the ones like Joe Allen who did this locally,...
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  • published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true. Brunvand (the "book not available on line") writes "But the actual cost to any consumer...
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  • ISBN 0415970210 [14] The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends By Jan Harold Brunvand Published 1993 W. W. Norton & Company 367 pages ISBN 0393312089 [15] What's...
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  • source content -- you'll notice that many articles mention Jan Harold Brunvand's writing on the topic. If by plagiarism you mean I discussed content from...
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  • check ANY scholarly book on the topic of urban legends or legends (Jan Brunvand, etc.) or stop in the urban legends newsgroups. Claims that urban legends...
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  • phone. In The Baby Train, the last of his urban legend books, Jan Harold Brunvand discusses this and thinks this goes back to one of those moron jokes that...
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  • although the official shelf life is 45 days." Halloween Candy 9: Jan Harold Brunvand "The widely believed rumors that sadistic people frequently prey on children...
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  • Castanza (talk) What about this reference (reference number 13 about Jan Brunvand) from 2004? Wouldn't you argue that it is on the dated side? At bare minimum...
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  • is incorrect for any of these phenomenon. Both Jeffrey Victor and Jan Brunvand have shown pretty damn conclusively, that these legend-clusters grow in...
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  • Society. (This is on JSTOR) Walls, E. Robert. 2006 [1996]. "Bigfoot" in Brunvand, Jan Herald (Editor). American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, pp. 158-159....
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  • malicious lie, but that doesn't prevent it from being an urban legend (Brunvand's books contain a number of tale-types and categories that would qualify...
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