Urban Legends Urban Legends depict the typical social acceptance of unverified stories that are meant to strike fear in people and raises several questions to be answered. No one knows who first used the phrase Urban Legend to represent the remarkable tales described by people of all ages. They have been studied as a serious form of folklore for more than forty years. Several scholars have done much to delve into this sub-type of folklore in search of its meaning and mode in our communities (Elliot 2-4). A story that is due to extraordinary nature, is told and retold across time and space, tending to morph meme and mutate along the way is known as an U....

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