Urban Legends of Belgium (Avant-Propos, 2017), Aurore Van de Winkel’s last book, is both a funny and scholarly approach of urban legend in the form of an illustrated book which reads like an imaginary...
Published April 24 and updated May 8, this article co-written with Veronique Campion-Vincent (author of several books on urban legends since 1992) analyzes a set of “Coronavirus good advice” erroneously assigned to the famous...
by Eymeric Spokus · Published 16 January 2020 · Last modified 17 January 2020
Russian folklorists Anna Kirziuk and Alexandra Arkhipova are the authors of the first book about urban legends in the Soviet Union. Corpses in kvass barrels, dangerous signs hidden by the enemies of the people,...
White van rumors reappeared in France and Belgium during 2019. Their circulation is testified by folklorists since the nineties. Why urban legends kidnappers are always represented circulating in a white van, in theses French...
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