Joel Beckwith Febuary 13, 2001
Urban Legends
In this paper I will explain exactly what an urban legend is,and
give some examples of very popular ones that have been passed by
word of mouth for decades across the United States.
1 " An urban legend is a story that is so bizarre,horrifying,or
unexplainable, that it makes something inside of us want to believe
it." Urban Legends can have traced origins from other countries,
universities, states, or people,that just decided to made up as
incredible story and pass it on to their friends and family members.
Many of these legends were started in the sixties and seventies,
and still continue to be passed on to this day. A good example, is
the horrifying Pop Rocks death. 2"In the seventies ,school kids
passed on the rumor that if Pop Rocks candy was eaten with any
kind of soda,the person's insides would explode". A legend that
eventually forced the candy company company to prove as untrue.
Most urban legends are began with "friend of a friend", which is
a key in realizing that what you are going to hear is probably untrue.
When I was in second grade, a famous legend was passed to
me, the story of the ''well to Hell''. Reportedly, down in Mexico, a
group of men were drilling holes in the ground looking for oil. These
holes were thousands of feet deep, and the men heard horrifying
screams coming from the depths below. Supposedly these
these terrible sounds were coming from Hell. This story caused
much debate among the Christian community, and was repeating
in news letters, and radio talk shows around the country. Eventually,
an urban legend investigator traced the story to a school teacher
who admitted that she made the whole thing up.
As legends are passed from person to person the stories are
modified and changed until several versions of the story actually
exist.
A good example of a mixed story is the classic urban legend
of the vanishing hitch hiker. Most versions of the story are told of a
tall thin hitch hiker walking down the road until he gets picked up.As
the stranger is in the car he stays quiet and doesn't speak until he
says ''The end is near'' and disappears right before the drivers eyes.
Other versions are told of a young girl who does the same thing
sometimes the hitch hiker claims ''Jesus is coming again ''right
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...hich is which and who is who", we see the Wicked Witch of the West looking at the dead feet of the Wicked Witch of the East.
For "up..up..up", the Witch is on top of a ramp; on "down..down.. down..", she is walking down.
"And in the end", the dead Witch disappears.
"Out..out..out", Good Witch Glynda exits in a bubble.
The song "Brain Damage" is played as the scarecrow sings "If I Only Had a Brain."
The heartbeat heard at the end of the album coincides with Dorothy listening to the Tin Man's heart.
(These similarities are found at http://turnerclassicmovies.com)
Urban legends and their history can be a very interesting thing
to devote your time to. The library has many good books on urban
legends, one of the best is "Too Good to be True: The Colossal
Book of Urban Legends" by Jan Harold Brunvand. Jan Harold
Brunvard has written other good books as urban legend references,
including "The Baby Train" and "The Mexican Pet".
Overall I enjoyed writing this report and I have found urban
legends to be very interesting and I hope to explore them more
as a personal hobby.
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shows the witches are ones who believe in evil spirits, as most witches are portrayed as.
The witch learns of Rapunzel's interaction with the Prince and places her in the desert, and when the Prince climbs the tower to seek Rapunzel, he finds the witch waiting there for him. At this point, the witch's assumption and belief that she has won coincides perfectly with Satan's arrogance in believing that by killing Christ, he would forever have dominion over man. To the witch's dismay, the Prince hurls himself from the tower, putting out his eyes on the thorns below. This is symbolic of Christ's conscious sacrifice for humanity on the hills over Nazareth. The Prince wanders blindly through the desert, and, after several years, is reunited with his beloved Rapunzel. Ultimately, the story's happy ending is a realization of God's promise that through Jesus Christ, we are forgiven and find everlasting life.
“ ‘Please,” he (Tinman) repeated. ‘I know what I’ve done. I know I’ve betrayed the people of Oz. I only did it for her.’ A single tear rolled down his cheek” (Paige 449). This quote alone stuck with me throughout the book and it still does. Dorothy Must Die is one of my favorite reads through 2015-2016 and probably will be throughout the rest of my high school career. The sentence alone sets up the main theme of the story and novel trilogy. That the characters we knew and loved a long time ago gained too much power after gaining their brains, hearts, and courage and wanted to take over the Land of Oz for good. I will be visualizing how Danielle Paige created the Land of Oz through the eyes of Amy Gumm, and even though it’s a set out to
The story goes: That Carmen Winstead was pushed down the sewer by girls who were bulling her, she died and came back to take revenge on the girls and whoever doesn’t believe her story. (Storyteller,2015). I don’t think this story is true. I find it hard believe that someone would come back to haunt you and kill you from the grave. When someone looks up her name on google all that comes up is, the story of her urban legend. You would figure if this was a real person who died an obituary would pop up. Per an article posted on wafflesatnoon.com, the legend is fake and was started as a chain letter on myspace.com. It also states in the article that the story was started in 2006 and was expanded in 2013 (Waffles, 2016). Dictionary.com
In conclusion, the protagonist of The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Gale, is initially unsatisfied with her life on her Aunt and Uncle’s farm and dreams of a foreign land over the rainbow, where there are no worries or disasters. Although as the story progresses, Victor Fleming incorporates a wide range of
We also see in this scene that the witches have the power to see into
After the witch’s threats, the Scarecrow and Tin Man vow to stay with Dorothy. This is when Dorothy feels a familiarity with the Tin Man and the Scarecrow. They are not afraid of the wicket witch. They continue to walk, with the sound of the forest in the back ground, but Dorothy is afraid of meeting wild animals in the forest. Suddenly a lion appears, noisy and acting ferocious; he wants to fight them all. Initially, they are afraid, but Dorothy hits the lion and chastises him; the lion begins to cry and thinks his nose is bleeding. Dorothy calls him a big coward, he agrees and says he even scare himself. They suggest the Wizard of Oz could give the lion courage. He calls himself a dandelion. They head to the wizard to get a heart, a home, a brain, and coverage. The wicked witch of the west is behind the scene making a poison and puts it in the beautiful land scape of miles and mile of flowers. This is an area Dorothy must cross to get to the emerald city. Dorothy and company can now see The Emerald City in the distance. They began to walk across the colorful flowers towards the Emerald City and they can again see the yellow brick road. Dorothy suddenly becomes dizzy and sleepy, her and mentors and allies offers to pull her alone, but Dorothy and Toto and the lion falls asleep. The Tin Man and Scarecrow wants to carry Dorothy when realizing that
which has to relate to the witches. The owl gives a sense of scariness which
The subject of this report focuses on the phenomenon known as Urban Legend. Urban Legend, henceforth referred to as UL, is well known in the arena of folklore and other sorts of stories passed down through generations; however, it is relatively new to the world of literary composition as a legitimate genre to be analyzed and studied in texts by experts of literature. In fact, if it had to be labeled, UL would be considered a sub-genre of folklore by many of the experts. These stories are known as "modern oral folklore - typically a tall tale with a frisson of comeuppance of horror, related as having actually happened to a 'friend of a friend'" (Clute & Grant, 1997). UL is also considered to be very similar to myth and fantasy.
The story starts off when a cyclone that hits the one bedroom farmhouse where Dorothy lives with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em. Dorothy and her dog Toto was carried away with the house by the cyclone. Then, the cyclone drops the house in the Land of Oz on top of the Wicked Witch of the East. The Munchkins give the Witch's Silver Shoes to Dorothy. The Good Witch of the North suggests that the Wizard of Oz may be of help to find her way back home. With the Good Witch's advice, Dorothy wears the Silver Shoes and start along the Yellow Brick Road that will take her to the Wizard in the Emerald City. On the way, she meets the Scarecrow perched on a pole and pulls him off. He tells her that he has no brains, but does not wish to be considered a fool. She persuades him to accompany her to the Emerald City, to see if the Wizard can give him a brain. The Yellow Brick Road takes Dorothy, Toto, and the Scarecrow into a large and dense forest. On the way, Dorothy finds out how the Scarecrow was made and how unsuccessful he was in scaring crows away from the cornfield. While walking, the travelers come across a Tin Woodman who has rusted and become immovable as a result of being caught in a rain storm. Dorothy finds an oil can to oil the Woodman's joints. She also finds that the Woodman had been human to...