Legend tripping: a contemporary legend casebook
dc.contributor.author | McNeill, Lynne S., editor | |
dc.contributor.author | Tucker, Elizabeth, editor | |
dc.contributor.author | Utah State University Press, publisher | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-11T21:36:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-11T21:36:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.description.abstract | Explores the practice of legend tripping, where individuals or groups travel to a site where an urban legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is depicted throughout vernacular (contemporary and historical) culture and an expression of humanity's interest in the frontier between life and death.--Provided by publisher. | |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Introduction / Lynne S. McNeill and Elizabeth Tucker -- Early studies / Elizabeth Tucker -- Legend-tripping in Ohio / Bill Ellis -- Adolescent legend trips as teenage cultural response / Patricia M. Meley -- Legend-trips and satanism / Bill Ellis -- Playing with fear / S. Elizabeth Bird -- Shame old roads can't talk / Tim Prizer -- Ostensive healing / Carl Lindahl -- Contemporary ghost hunting and the relationship between proof and experience / Lynne S. McNeill -- "There's an app for that" / Elizabeth Tucker -- Living legends / Lynne S. McNeill. | |
dc.format.medium | born digital | |
dc.format.medium | books | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/193046 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Utah State University Press | |
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dc.rights.access | Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University members only. | |
dc.subject | Urban folklore -- United States | |
dc.subject | Legends -- United States | |
dc.subject | Culture and tourism -- United States | |
dc.subject | Haunted places -- United States | |
dc.subject | Supernatural | |
dc.title | Legend tripping: a contemporary legend casebook | |
dc.type | Text |
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