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"Bloody Mary" : A Guilty Pleasure; Comical or Catastrophic?
Urban legends are fictional stories that are believed to be true because they are viewed as a curse. They repeat themselves and spread through a method of story telling over time. Urban legends are so bizarre and unexplainable that it actually makes something inside of us want to believe it. It almost seems inhumane for us to want to believe such morbid myths. It is not so much that we are that brutal to want some of these malicious things to happen; its more like we feel the need to question the unexplainable. Urban legends are world wide and have been since the beginning of time. The most widely believed urban legends are the ones that begin as a mere rumor and then gain the status to be thought of as "accurate" and acquire media attention. Urban legends are hard to determine and are so popular because they leave people wandering if they are true, because in most cases it could have actually happened. Urban Legends have also been referred to as anecdotes and everyone knows that anecdotes are harmless. It is okay to repeat certain urban legends in fact, teachers have even brought them into their classrooms. They use them to make lessons more interesting (Goodwin, Stephen C. p. 114). Urban legends vary from comic to catastrophic. The most widely known urban legends are those which have an ironic twist. Urban legends that turn out to be tragic seem to be more socially accepted than the legends that have a positive outcome.
Whether or not the urban legend is true, it is a fact that it has been exaggerated over the years. What causes these tales or myths to obtain such widespread belief? One of the main questions that lingers in everyone's head is how does someone determine the fictitious from the factual (Frost, Chris. P.224 )? There has been numerous researches and case studies on urban legends because of their high density of popular belief. In one of these studies, the researcher came...

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