Part one of term paper
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 yea ...

Part two of term paper
... understandable definiton of an Urban Legend would be, they are stories that we have all heard and they are usually digusting or eerie,but yet so believable that we rarely doubt their validity. They are almost always false or grossly distorded,yet they endure for years. Urban Legend is a term popularized by University of Utah Folklore expert, Jan Harold Brunvand (Brooke 2). They comprise the many more or less believable and always amazing stories that so many swear to be true but so few are ...