Part one of term paper
Folklorists define urban legends as rumors or stories that are spread informally and widely accepted as truth. This spreading informally is typically orally but can take place in many other different ways. Often, such lore dwells on freakish disasters or ghoulish behavior. Folklorists are those people who have gathered, classified, and studie ...

Part two of term paper
... magic, witchcraft, verse, folk song, folk music, folk dancing, traditions, jokes, ballads, lyric, charms, children's music, and a variety of other forms of artistic expression whose medium is the spoken word. According to the Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary of , Mythology, and Legend the term can be defined as "comprising of traditional creations of peoples, primitive and civilized. These are achieved by using sounds and words in metric form and prose, and include also folk beliefs or ...