Legend tripping : a contemporary legend casebook / Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNeill, Lynne S., author.

Tucker, Elizabeth, 1948- author.

Series:

Contemporary Legend Casebook Series

The International Society for Contemporary Legend Resarch Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban folklore--United States.

Urban folklore.

Legends--United States.

Legends.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 235 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Explores the practice of legend tripping, where individuals or groups travel to a site where an urban legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is depicted throughout vernacular (contemporary and historical) culture and an expression of humanity's interest in the frontier between life and death"--Provided by publisher

Contents:

Living legends Lynne S. McNeill.

"There's an app for that" Elizabeth Tucker

Contemporary ghost hunting and the relationship between proof and experience Lynne S. McNeill

Ostensive healing Carl Lindahl

Playing with fear S. Elizabeth Bird

Shame old roads can't talk

Legend-trips and satanism Bill Ellis

Adolescent legend trips as teenage cultural response Patricia M. Meley

Legend-tripping in Ohio Bill Ellis

Early studies Elizabeth Tucker

Introduction Lynne S. McNeill and Elizabeth Tucker

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607328087

1607328089

OCLC:

1099829736