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legend miejskich Gdyni

 Podstawowa bibliografia w języku polskim:

1.      Barber, M. 2007. Legendy miejskie. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo RM.

2.      Czubala, D. 1993. Współczesne legendy miejskie. Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski.

3.      Czubala, D. 1996. Nasze mity współczesne. Katowice: Fundacja dla Wspierania Śląskiej Humanistyki.

4.      Czubala, D. 2005. Wokół legendy miejskiej. Bielsko-Biała: Wydawnictwo Akademii Techniczno-Humanistycznej.

5.      Graliński, F. 2012. Znikająca nerka. M@ły leksykon współczesnych legend miejskich. Z rysunkami Henryka Sawki. Poznań: Media Rodzina.

6. Marcin Napiórkowski, Mitologia współczesna. Relacje o poczynaniach i przygodach krajowców zamieszkałych w globalnej wiosce, Warszawa 2013.

7. Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, Legendy o krwi. Antropologia przesądu, Warszawa 2008.

8. Ulf Hannerz, Odkrywanie miasta. Antropologia obszarów miejskich. Przekład Ewa Klekot, Kraków 2006.

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. By Jan Harold Brunvand. Artwork by Randy Hickman. New York and London: WW. Norton, 2002. 523 pp. Illus. Pbk.

A
Abductions - Uprowadzenia, porwania
Academe, Legends of - Legendy środowiska akademickiego
'The Accidental Cannibals' - Przypadkowi kanibale
'The Accidental Stickup' -
Accidents
'The Acrobatic Professor'
'AIDS Harry'
'AIDS Mary'
'The Air-Freighted Pet'
'All That Glitters Is Not Gold'
'Alligators in the Sewers' - Aligator w kanale ściekowym
Amusement Park Dangers
Analysis and Interpretation
Animals in Urban Legends
'The Animal's Revenge'
Ankle Slashers
Ants or Termites Invade the Body - Mrówki (termity, meszki, muchy) atakują ciało
Architects' Blunders
Argentina
'The Arrest'
'The Assailant in the Backseat'
Atrocities
'Atrocity Stories'
'The Attempted Abduction'
Australia
Automobiles
'The Avon Flasher'

B

Babies

'The Baby-Roast'

'The Baby Train'

'Baby's Stuck at Home Alone'

'The Baby-sitter and the Man Upstairs'

Backward Buildings and Statues

'The Bargain Sports Car'

'The Barometer Problem'

'The Barrel of Bricks' - Zamurowana baryłka

'Bart Simpson Acid'

'The Bedbug Letter'

Belgium

Belief Legend

Big Cats Running Wild

'Bikers Versus Smokers' - Rowerzyści kontra palacze

'The Bird-Foot Exam'

'The Blind Date'

'The Blind Man'

'The Blood Libel' - Śmiertelna obraza

'Blue Star Acid'

'The Body in the Bed'

'The Body on the Car'

Bogus Warnings - Fałszywe ostrzeżenia

'The Bosom Serpent'

'The Bothered Bride'

'The Boy Who Played Superman' - Chłopiec który udawał Supermana

'The Boyfriend's Death'

'Bozo the Clown's Blooper'

'The Brain Drain'

Bubble Yum

'A Bug in the Ear' - Robak w uchu

'The Bug Under the Rug'

'The Bullet Baby'

'The Bump in the Rug'

'The Bungled Rescue of the Cat'

Bungling Brides

'Buried Saint Sells Property'

Business Legends

'The Butcher's Prank'

'Buying Tampax'

C

'The Cabbage Patch Tragedy'

Cadavers - Zwłoki

Campus Rumor Scares

'The Can of Snakes'

Canada

'Car Stolen During Earthquake'

'Career Decisions'

'The Castrated Boy'

'The Cat (or Dog) and the Nude Man'

'The Cat in the Package'

Celebrities

'The Celebrity's Car Breakdown'

'The Celebrity's Telephone (or Phone Card) Number'

'The Cement-Truck Driver'

'The Chicken in the Hat'

Child Ballad

Children

Chinese Restaurants - Chińskie (wietnamskie,orientalne) restauracje

'The Choking Doberman'

Church's Chicken Rumors

Cigar Insurance ('Cigarson')

Classifying Urban Legends

'The Clever Baby-sitter'

'The Climax of Horrors'

Cokelore

'The Colander Copier Caper'

Collagens in Cosmetics

Collecting Urban Legends

'The Colo-Rectal Mouse'

'Come and Get It!'

Comics and Urban Legends

Communal Re-creation

'The Communist Rules for Revolution'

Companies

Comparative Approach

Computers

Conspiracies

'The Contaminated Comforter'

Contamination

Contemporary Legend

Contemporary Legend (Journal)

Context

'The Cooked Pet or Baby'

'The Corpse in the Car'

'The Corpse in the Cask'

CPR Annie Legend

The Craig Shergold Legend

Crime

'Cruise Control'

'The Crushed Dog'

Culture-Clash Legends

'Curses! Broiled Again!'

'The Cut-Off Finger'

'The Cut-Out Pullman'

D

'The Daughter's Letter from College' - List córki ze szkoły

'The Day Trip'

'The Dead Cat in the Package'

'The Death Car' - Samochód śmierci

'The Death of Little Mikey'

Decapitated Riders and Drivers - Jeźdźcy, rowerzyści, motocykliści i kierowcy bez głowy

'The Deer Departed'

'Define ‘Courage''

Definition of 'Legend'

Denmark

Dental Death

Department Store Snakes

'The Devil in the Dance Hall'

'Dial 911 for Help'

'Ding-Dong, Dinner Bell'

'The Dishonest Note'

Dissertation Legends

'Do You Know Who I Am?'

'The Dog in the High-rise'

'Dog's Corpse Is Stolen'

'The Dog's Dinner'

'The Dolly Parton Diet' - Dieta Dolly Parton (Dieta Edyty Górniak, Dieta NN)

'Don't Mess with Texas'

'The Dormitory Surprise'

'The Double Theft'

'The Dream Warning'

Drug Horror Stories

A Drug-Smuggling Legend

'Drugged and Seduced'

Dutch Urban Legends

E

Earthquake Stories

Earwig Stories

'The Eaten Pets'

'The Economical Car'

'The Elephant That Sat on the VW'

Elevator Accidents - Wydarzenia w windzie

'The Elevator Incident'

Embarrassment

England

The Escalating Medical Problems

Exploding Animals - Wybuchające zwierzęta

'The Exploding Bra' - Wybuchający biust, Eksplodujące staniki

'The Exploding Butane Lighter'

'The Exploding Toilet' - Eksplodująca toaleta (Eksplodujące szambo)

F

'The Failed Suicide'

'The Fallen Angel Cake'

'The Fart in the Dark'

Fast Food

'The Fatal Boot'

'The Fatal Golf Tee'

'The Fatal Initiation'

FBI Stories

'The FCC Petition'

'Fifi Spills the Paint'

'The 50-Dollar Porsche'

'Filmed in the Act'

Film and Urban Legends

'Find the Hat'

'The Finger in the Pickle Jar'

Finland

'The Five-Pound Note'

'Fixing the Flue'

'Flights of Fancy'

'The Flying Cow'

'The Flying Kitten'

FOAF

FOAFtale News

Folklore

Folktale

'The Foreign Hotel'

Fortean Approach

France

Freudian Approach

'The Frozen Brain'

'The Fused Cornea and Contacts'

G

'The Gay Roommate'

Generation Gap Legends

The Gerber's Settlement Hoax

'The Gerbil- (or Snake-) Caused Accident'

Gerbiling

Germany

'The Ghost in Search of Help' - Duch szukający pomocy

'The Ghostly Videotape'

'The Giant Catfish'

'The Girl on the Gearshift Lever'

'Give Me a High Three!'

'The Golf Bag'

The Goliath Effect

'The Good Old Days'

'The Good Times Virus'

Government Legends

'Grandma's Washday'

'The Graveyard Wager'

'Green M&Ms'

'Green Stamps'

The Gremlin Effect

'Grenadians Speak English'

'The Grocery Scam'

'The Grumbling Groom'

'The Gucci Kangaroo'

'The Guilty Dieter'

H

Hair Turned White

'The Hairdresser's Error'

'The Hairy-Armed Hitchhiker'

'The Halloween Party'

Halloween Sadists

Handwriting on the Wall

'The Hapless Water-skier'

'The Hare Dryer'

'The Harried Baby-sitter'

'The Hatchet in the Handbag'

'The Heel in the Grate'

'The Helpful Mafia Neighbor'

'The Heroic Hacker'

Hilarious Reports

'The Hippy Baby-sitter'

Historical Approach

Hoaxes

'Hold the Mayo'; 'Hold the Mozzarella'

Holland

'The Holy Place'

'The Homemade Lie Detector'

Homosexuality

'The Hook'

Horror Legends

Human Nature

'The Hunter's Nightmare'

Hunting

I

'I Believe in Mary Worth'

'The Ice-Cream Car'

'The Ice-Cream Cone Caper'

'The Improved Product'

'The Incautious Swimmer'

'Indecent Exposure'

'The Ineradicable Bloodstain'

International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

International Urban Legends

Internet Resources

Interpretation

Ireland

ISCLR

Israel

Italy

J

Japan

'The Jewish Secret Tax'

'The Jogger's Billfold'

Joke

Jumping to Conclusions

K

'The Kangaroo Thief'

'The Kentucky Fried Rat'

'The Kidney Heist'

'The Kilkenny Widow'

'The Killer in the Backseat'

'Kitty Takes the Rap'

Ku Klux Klan Rumors

L

'La Llorona'

'The Last Kiss'

'The Laughing Paramedics'

Law Legends

'The Lawn-Mower Accident'

Leaning Towers

'The Leashed Dogs'

Legal Horror Stories

Legend

Legend-Tripping

'The Lesson in Compassion'

'A License to Practice'

'The Licked Hand'

'Lights Out!'

Linguistic Approach

Literature and Urban Legends

'The Loaded Dog'

'The Locked-Out Nude'

'The Locked-Out Pilot'

'The Lost Wreck'

'The Lottery Ticket'

'The Lover's Telephone Revenge'

LSD Stickers, Transfers, and Tattoos

M

'The Madalyn Murray O'Hair Petition'

Mall Slashers

Malls

Malpractice Stories

'The Man on the Roof'

Mary Worth

Masturbating into Food

McDonald's Rumors

Medical Student Pranks

Memetics

Mercantile Legends

'The Message Under the Stamp'

'The Messenger Boy'

'The Mexican Pet'

Mickey Mouse Acid

'The Microwaved Pet' - Zwierzątko w kuchence mikrofalowej

Mikey

Military Legends

Mint-Condition Vintage Vehicles

'Miracle at Lourdes'

'The Misguided Good Deed'

'The Missing Day in Time'

'The Missionaries and the Cat'

Mistaken Identifications

'The Modem Tax' and 'The E-Mail Tax'

Mongolia

'The Mother's Threat Carried Out'

Motif

'The Mouse in the Coke'

Movies

'The Mrs. Fields Cookie Recipe'

Music and Urban Legends

Musicians and Urban Legends

'The Mutilated Boy'

'The Mutilated Shopper'

'The Mystery Trip'

Myth

N

Naive Computer User Stories - Opowieści o niedoświadczonych użytkownikach komputerów

Naive Hunter Stories - Historie o niedoświadczonych myśliwych

'Nasty Legends' and 'Nastier Legends'

Native American Contemporary Legends

Needle-Attack Legends

'Neiman Marcus Cookies'

The Netherlands

'The New Identity'

New Zealand

Norway

'Not My Dog'

'The Nude Bachelor'

'The Nude Housewife'

'The Nude in the RV'

'The Nude Surprise Party'

Nudity

'The Nut and the Tire Nuts'

O

'The Obligatory Wait'

'Octopus Eggs Impregnate Swimmer'

'Old Versus Young'

'The One-Word Exam Question'

'The Open-Book Exam'

Organ Thefts - Złodzieje narządów wewnętrznych

Ostension (or Ostensive Action)

'Out of the Mouths of Babes'

P

'The Package of Cookies'

'The Packet of Biscuits'

Panthers on the Loose

Parodies of Urban Legends

'Pass It On'

'Paul Is Dead'

Penis Captivus

Performance of Urban Legends

'The Pet and the Naked Man'

'The Pet Nabber'

Pets

'The Phantom Clowns' - Upiorni klauni

'The Phantom Coachman'

'The Phantom Hitchhiker' - Upiorny autostopowicz

'The Philanderer's Porsche'

Photocopy Lore

'The Pig on the Road'

'The Plant's Revenge'

Poetic Justice

'The Poinsettia Myth'

'The Poison Dress' - Trujące ubrania

'The Poisoned Pussycat at the Party'

Poisonous Tomatoes? - Trujące (promieniotwórcze) pomidory

Poland

Police

Pop Rocks Cause Death

Popular Culture and Urban Legends

'Postcards for Little Buddy'

Pranks

'The Pregnant Shoplifter'

'The Price of Cabbage Memo'

'The Procter & Gamble Trademark'

'The Proctological Examination'

Professions

'Promiscuity Rewarded'

'The Promiscuous Cheerleader'

Proto-Legend

Pull-Tab Collecting

'Push-Starting the Car'

Q

Queensland Folk

'The Queensland Poet' [James Brunton Stephens]

'The Queer Roommate'

R

'‘R' Is for Race'

Racism in Urban Legends

Radio and Urban Legends

Railroads

'The Rape Trial'

'The Rat in the Rye Bread'

'The Rattle in the Cadillac'

Razor Blade Sabotage

'Red Velvet Cake'

Redemption Rumors

Reebok Rumors

'The Relative's Cadaver'

Religion and Urban Legends

Restaurants

'The Resubmitted Term Paper'

'The Resurrected Rabbit'

Resusci Anne Legend

Revenge in Urban Legends

'Revenge of the Rich'

'Roaming Gnomes'

'The Robber Who Was Hurt'

Rolls-Royce Legends

Romania

'Room for One More'

'The Roommate's Death'

'The Roommate's Suicide and the Four-Point Grade'

'The Roughneck's Revenge'

Rumor

'The Runaway Grandmother'

'The Runaway Patient'

Russia

S

Satanic Panic

'The Sawed-Off Fingers'

SCA Legends

Scandal

Scary Stories

Scotland

'The Scuba Diver in the Tree'

'The Second Blue Book'

'The Second Death'

'The Secret Ingredient'

Severed Fingers

'Sex in Disguise'

Sex in Urban Legends

'Sex in the Classroom'

'The Sheriff's Daughter'

'The Shocking Videotape'

'Shooting the Bull'

'The Shoplifter and the Frozen Food'

Shopping Malls in Urban Legends

'Shrink-to-Fit Jeans'

Sinking Libraries

Sinking Shopping Malls

'The Ski Accident'

Slapstick Comedy in Urban Legends

'The Slasher Under the Car'

'The Small World Legend'

'The Smashed VW Bug'

'The Snake (or Spider, etc.) in the Bananas (or Greens, etc.)' - Węże i pająki w owocach

'The Snake in the Store'

'The Snake in the Strawberry Patch'

Snakes - Węże

'Snakes in Playland'

'Snakes in the Tunnel of Love'

Social Class in Urban Legends

Society for Creative Anachronism

Sociological Approach

'The Solid-Cement Cadillac'

South Africa

Spain

'Sperm in the Swimming Pool'

'The Spider Bite'

'Spider Eggs in Bubble Yum'

Spiders

'Spiders in the Cactus'

'Spiders in the Hairdo'

'St. Joseph Sells Real Estate'

State Police 'Balls'

Stolen-Corpse Legends

Stolen Kidney Legends

'The Stolen Specimen'

'The Stolen Speedtrap'

'The Stolen Wallet'

'Stripping the Car'

Structural Approach

'The Stuck Baby'

'The Stuck Couple'

'The Stuck Diver'

'Stuck on the Toilet'

'The Stuck Santa'

'The Stuffed Baby'

'The Stunned Deer'

Stupid Pet Rescues

Style of Urban Legends

Suicide

'The Suicide Rule'

'Superglue Revenge'

'Superhero Hijinks'

Supernaturalism in Urban Legends

'The Suppressed Product'

'The Surpriser Surprised'

'The Swallowed Contacts'

Sweden

'Swiss-Charred Poodle'

Switched Campus Buildings

Symbolic Approach

T

Tabloids and Urban Legends

'Take My Tickets, Please!'

Tale Type

Talk Shows and Urban Legends

Tapeworms in Diet Pills

Technical Incompetence

'The Technology Contest'

Telephones in Urban Legends

Television and Urban Legends

'The Telltale Report'

Theft in Urban Legends

'The Through Train'

Toll-Booth Pranks

'The Toothbrush Photo'

Tourist Horror Stories

'The Trained Professor'

Tricky Questions and Answers

'Truckers and Bikers'

True Urban Legends

'The Tube on the Tube'

'The Turkey Neck'

'The Two Hitchhikers'

U

'Uncle Don's Blooper'

'The Unexpected Inheritance'

'The Unfortunate Gas Thief'

'The Unlucky Contact Lenses'

'The Unlucky Driver's Examination'

'The Unsolvable Math Problem'

'The Unstealable Car'

Unwitting Thefts

'The Unzipped Fly'

'The Unzipped Plumber or Mechanic'

Urban Belief Tales

Urban Legend

Urban Myth

'Urban Pancake'

Urban Panthers

'Urine in Corona Beer'

V

'The Vanishing Hitchhiker'

'The Vanishing Lady'

Variants and Versions

'The Veterans' Insurance Dividend'

'The Videotaped Theft'

Violence in Urban Legends

Viper-Release Legends

W

'Waiting for the Ice Man'

War in Urban Legends

'The War Profiteer'

Warnings

'Watch the Margins'

Water-skiers

'Welcome to the (Wonderful) World of AIDS'

'The Welded Contacts'

'The Welfare Letter'

'The Well to Hell'

'What Is Jazz?'

'Which Tire?'

White-Slavery Legends

'Why I Fired My Secretary'

'The Wife Left Behind'

'The Wife on the Flight'

'The Wildcat in the Suitcase'

'The Will'

'The Wispy Wire'

'The Witch Who Was Hurt'

'The Witness's Note'

'The Wordy Government Memo'

'Wormburgers' - Hamburgery pełne robaków

Worth, Mary

Written or Printed Traditions

'The Wrong Car'

'The Wrong Rattler'

'The Wrong Rest Stop'

'The Wrong Teeth' - Zły ząb (oczywiście wyrwany przez dentystę)

X

Xenophobia in Urban Legends

Xeroxlore

Y

'The Youngest Fan'

Z

Zipper Stories

'The Zoo Section'