Contemporary Legend
Index by Volume

First Series (1991-1996)

Volume 1 (1991)

Dégh, Linda.

“What is the Legend After all?” 11-38.

Ellis, Bill.

“Cattle Mutilation: Contemporary Legends and Contemporary Mythologies.” 39-80.

Clements, William M.

“Interstitiality in Contemporary Legends.” 81-91.

Hobbs, Sandy, and David Cornwell.

“A Behavior Analysis Model of Contemporary Legend.” 93-106.

Best, Joel.

“Bad Guys and Random Violence: Folklore and Media Constructions of Contemporary Deviants.” 107-21.

Smith, Paul.

“Contemporary Legends and Popular Culture: ‘it’s the Real Thing’.” 123-52.

Langlois, Janet.

“‘Hold the Mayo’: Purity and Danger in an AIDS Legend.” 153-72.

Barnes, Daniel R.

“The Contemporary Legend in Literature: Towards an Annotated Checklist.” 173-83.

Volume 2 (1992)

Winick, Stephen.

“Batman in the Closet: A New York Legend.” 1-21.

Goldstein, Diane E.

“Welcome to the Mainland, Welcome to the World of AIDS: Cultural Viability, Localization and Contemporary Legend.” 23-40.

Smith, Paul.

“‘Read all Bout it! Elvis Eaten by Drug-Crazed Giant Alligator’: Contemporary Legend and the Popular Press.” 41-70.

Nicolaisen, W. F. H.

“Contemporary Legends: Narrative Texts Versus Summaries.” 71-91.

Shorrocks, Graham.

“Reflections on the Problems of Transcribing Contemporary Legends.” 93-117.

Alford, Peggy E.

“Anglo-American Perceptions of Navajo Skinwalker Legends.” 119-36.

Kelley, Charles Greg.

“Joseph E. Brown Hall: A Case Study of One University Legend.” 137-53.

Barden, Thomas E.

“Early Virginia Analogues of some Modern Legends.” 155-64.

Barnes, Daniel R., and Paul Smith.

“The Contemporary Legend in Literature-Towards an Annotated Checklist (Part One).” 167-79.

Volume 3 (1993)

Wyckoff, Donna.

“Why a Legend? Contemporary Legends as Community Ritual.” 1-36.

Kanaana, Sharif.

“The Role of Women in Intifadah Legends.” 37-61.

Victor, Jeffrey S.

“The Sociology of Contemporary Legends: A Review of the use of the Concept by Sociologists.” 63-83.

Kapferer, Jean-Noel.

“The Persuasiveness of an Urban Legend: The Case of ‘Mickey Mouse Acid’.” 85-101.

Brunvand, Jan Harold.

“A Blast Heard Round the World.” 103-19.

Gaudet, Marcia.

“The Earthquake Angel: Contemporary Legend on the New Madrid Fault.” 121-31.

Barnes, Daniel R., and Paul Smith.

“The Contemporary Legend in Literature-Towards an Annotated Checklist (Part Two).” 133-44.

Ryan, J. S.

“The Vampire before and After Stoker’s Dracula.” 145-54.

Volume 4 (1994)

Glazer, Mark (ed ).

“Devil Legends.” 1-133.

Arora, Shirley L.

“‘Look, Daddy. I have Teeth!’: A Devil Legend in Contemporary Hispanic Tradition.” 5-29.

Galzer, Mark.

“‘El Diablo En El Baile’: Cultural Change, Tradition, and Continuity in a Chicano Legend.” 31-44.

Montenyohl, Eric L.

“Beliefs in Satanism and their Impact on a Community: Moving Beyond Textual Studies in Oral Tradition.” 45-59.

Ellis, Bill.

“Speak to the Devil: Ouija Board Rituals among American Adolescents.” 61-90.

Simpson, Jacqueline.

“Hecate in the the Primrose Wood: The Propagation of a Rumour.” 91-118.

Dégh, Linda.

“Satanic Child Abuse in a Blue House.” 119-33.

Bennett, Gillian, and Paul Smith.

“Contemporary Legend: Creating a Practical Bibliography.” 135-48.

Volume 5 (1995)

Lassen, Henrik R.

“‘the Improved Product’: A Philological Investigation of a Contemporary Legend.” 1-37.

Preston, Cathy Lynn.

“London’s Flames Revisted: Rumor-Legend and the Negotiation of Political Agendas in the 17th-Century England.” 38-75.

Bar-Itzhak, Haya.

“‘Walking Barefoot in the Land of Israel’: Mythicization and De-Mythicization in Contemporary Kibbutz Narratives.” 76-100.

MacGregor, Robert M.

“Quebec’s Killer Beer: A Dark T(Ale).” 101-14.

Venbrux, Eric, and Theo Meder.

“‘the False Teeth in the Cod’: A Legend Put into Context.” 115-31.

Wehse, Rainer.

“Concepts and Change of Concepts in Contemporary German Legends, Including a Proposition for a New Genre Terminology.” 132-53.

New Series (1998 – 2007)

Volume 1 (1998)

Lau, Kimberly J.

“On the Rhetorical use of Legend: U. C. Berkeley Campus Lore as a Strategy for Coded Protest.” 1-20.

Sammells, Clare A.

“Folklore, Food, and National Identity: Urban Legends of Llama Meat in La Paz, Bolivia.” 21-54.

Conrad, Joann.

“Stranger Danger: Defending Innocence, Denying Responsibility.” 55-96.

Maynard, Lara.

“Locked Doors: Bearer-Centred.” 97-115.

Guigne, Anna Kearney.

“The ‘Dying Child’s Wish’ Complex: The Case of the Shergold Appeal.” 116-33.

Simpson, Jaqueline.

“Are the Terms ‘Modern’ and ‘Contermporary’ Synonymous?” 134-48.

Goss, Michael.

“Elvis Lives! the ‘Secret Survival’ Theme in Rocklore.” 149-200.

Volume 2 (1999)

Gaudet, Marcia.

“Robert Olen Butler’s ‘A Ghost Story’: Contemporary Legend as Literature.” 8-17.

Goldstein, Diane E.

“‘Please Send Your used Rolodex Cards to the Muppet Wish Foundation’: Folk Parody, Generic Sensibility, Literalization and Contemporary Legend.” 18-33.

Lindahl, Carl.

“The Re-Oralized Legends of Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne.” 34-62.

Preston, Michael J.

“Never Talk to Strangers: Parental Warnings, Contemporary Legends, and Popular Fiction.” 63-72.

Kibbey, Ann.

“Who Incidented that Little Girl? Stories as Pollution Rites in the Ramsey Murder Case.” 73-108.

Preston, Cathy Lynn.

“Babysitting and the Man Upstairs: Negotiating the ‘Politics of Everyday Fear’.” 109-36.

Smith, Paul.

“Contemporary Legend on Film and Television: Some Observations.” 137-54.

Koven, Mikel J.

“Candyman can: Film and Ostentation.” 155-73.

Grider, Sylvia.

“The Haunted House in Literature, Popular Culture, and Tradition: A Consistent Image.” 174-204.

Volume 3 (2000)

Bennett, Gillian.

“Medical Aspects of the ‘Bosom Serpent’.” 1-26.

Arora, Shirley L.

“Hear and Tell: Children and the Llorona.” 27-44.

Schmidt, Sigrid.

“Coffins on Cars-Three Namibian Adventures: Some Remarks on the Relationship of Contemporary Legends and Jests.” 45-63.

Smith, Alan W.

“The Sinister Submarine as a Motif in Contemporary Legend and Popular Imagination.” 64-82.

Erisman, Wendy.

“Genealogy of a Witch-Hunt: Satanism, Social Power, and the Society for Creative Anachronism.” 83-107.

Gabbert, Lisa.

“Religious Belief and Everyday Knowledge: A Functional Analysis of the Legend Dialectic.” 108-26.

Thomas, Jeannie B.

“Stone Angels, Naked Mourners, and various Virgins: Statues, Legends and the Gendering of Intimacy.” 127-60.

Wycoff, Donna L.

“‘it has all the Earmarks …’: Spotting Contemporary Legends Early; Predicting their Course.” 161-83.

Volume 4 (2001)

Koven, Mikel J.

“‘Buzz Off!’: The Killer Bee Movie as Modern Belief Narrative.” 1-19.

Everett, Holly, and Peter Narváez.

“‘Me and the Devil’: Legends of Niccolo Paganini and Robert Johnson.” 20-47.

Ashton, John.

“Ecotypes, Etiology and Contemporary Legend: The ‘Webber’ Cycle in Western Newfoundland.” 48-60.

Winniford, Lee.

“Examining the Legendary Base for the Telephone Road Subculture’s Personal Experience Narratives.” 61-73.

Ellis, Bill.

“Hæc in Sua Parochia Accidisse Dixit: The Rhetoric of 15th Century Contemporary Legends.” 74-92.

Henken, Elissa R.

“Contemporary Legend in the Works of Gerald of Wales.” 93-107.

McIntyre, Lynn, et al.

“Origin Stories from Children’s Feeding Programs in Atlantic Canada: Heart-Wrenching Tales of Contemporary Legends?” 108-25.

Barnes, Daniel, and Paul Smith.

“The Contemporary Legend in Literature-Towards an Annotated Checklist, Part 4: The Bosom Serpent.” 126-49.

Volume 5 (2002)

Tye, Diane.

“Tales of Whose Village? Legend as Female Countermemory.” 1-23.

Lawless, Elaine.

“The Monster in the House: Legend Characteristics of the ‘Cycles of Violence’ Narrative Prototype.” 24-49.

Hiscock, Philip.

“Legend and Blason Populaire in Three Newfoundland Treasure Songs.” 50-66.

Clarke, David.

“Phantom Helicopters: A Rumor-Generated Visual Epidemic.” 67-91.

Sivier, David J.

“Empires of Fear: Vampirism, Colonialism and the Stolen Body Parts Panic.” 92-113.

Koven, Mikel J.

“Filming Legends: A Revised Typology.” 114-35.

Burger, Peter.

“Contemporary Legends in the Short Stories of Roald Dahl.” 136-58.

Volume 6 (2003)

Fraser, Joy.

“‘Gie Her a Haggis!’: Haggis as Food, Legend and Popular Culture.” 1-43.

Brodie, Ian.

“The Insight Legend.” 44-88.

Bodner, John.

“Cherry Beach Express: Rumor and Contemporary Legend among a Homeless Youth Community in Downtown Toronto.” 89-118.

Frank, Russell.

“‘Worth a Thousand Words’: The Photographic Urban Legend and the Illustrated Urban Legend.” 119-45.

Burke, Carol.

“Soldiers Real and Imagined and the Stories they Tell.” 146-56.

Hiscock, Philip.

“Takes on Texts: Readings of Local Legends.” 157-73.

Volume 7 (2004)

Baldwin, Karen.

“When folk art worlds collide: Vollis Simpson’s giant whirligigs and the dark legend of ‘Acid Park’.” 1-43.

Milspaw, Yvonne.

“Ghosts and grave offerings: Legends from South Central Pennsylvania: A case study in the intersection of stories and stone.” 44-66.

Prizer, Tim.

“‘Shame old roads can’t talk’: Narrative, experience, and belief in framing legend-trips as performance.” 67-97.

Tucker, Elizabeth.

“Marbles on the ceiling: Emerging campus legends.” 98-111.

Bruce, Alexander M.

“Building community: The folklore of physical space at Florida Southern College.” 112-136.

Preston, Cathy Lynn.

“University campus legends: Student tactics and habitable spaces.” 137-171.

Volume 8 (2005)

Weber, Dana.

“Why Dracula cannot die: The invention of a media-legend.” 1-27.

Mollegaard, Kirsten.

“The fairy-tale paradigm: Contemporary legend on Hans Christian Andersen’s parentage.” 28-46.

Pettitt, Tom.

“Body and environment in the contemporary legend: Articulation vs. containment.” 47-66.

Cameron, Sarah.

“Japanese horror cinema – real and imagined folklore and representations of women in Ju-on: The Grudge and Ring.” 67-93.

Peretti, Daniel.

“Ghost stories and a pinecone tree: The coordination of belief, narrative, and material culture.” 94-120.

Volume 9 (2006)

Armitage, Marc.

“‘All About Mary’: Children’s use of the toilet ghost story as a mechanism for dealing with fear. But fear of what?” 1-27.

Clarke, David.

“Unmasking Spring-heeled Jack: A case study of a 19^th century ghost panic.” 28-52.

Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen.

“Beware! This is a ghost-free ghost story: Revisiting the New England folklore in Remember Me by Mary Higgins Clark.” 53-68.

Cowdell, Paul.

“‘You saw the ghost, didn’t you? There’s someone wants to ask you about it’: Occupational ghostlore, narrative, and belief. 69-82.

Compora, Daniel P.

“Ghostly attractions: The ghostlore of television, college campuses and tourism.” 83-95.

McNeill, Lynne S.

“Contemporary ghost hunting and the relationship between proof and experience.” 96-110.

Volume 10 (2007)

Ellis, Bill.

“The roots of ‘Perspectives on Contemporary Legend’: The 1960 Rhodes-Livingston Institute Conference, ‘Myth in Modern Africa.” 1-37.

Main, David and Sandy Hobbs.

“The substitute personal experience narrative in contemporary legends.” 38-51.

Anderson, Seonaid.

“Gassed and robbed: An emerging motif?” 52-73.

Milspaw, Yvonne J.

“TMI-2: Elements in the discourse on disaster.” 74-93.

Meder, Theo.

“The Hunt for Winnie the Puma: Wild animals in a civilized Dutch environment.” 94-127.

Third Series (2011-)

Volume 1 (2011)

Conn, Joel.

“A Pocahontas by any other name: A legend regarding naming from Scotland.”  1-28.

Ware, Carolyn.

“Rabid cows and undead dogs: Storytelling in veterinary medicine.” 29-43.

Tucker, Elizabeth.

“‘LMAO—that wasnt [sic] even scary’: Comments on legend-related performances on YouTube.” 44-57.

Rouhier-Willouighby, Jeanmarie and Vera Kuznetsova.

“Riussian Folk Legends on Noah and the Flood.” 58-94.

Fugarino, Virginia S.

“I (don’t) like Ike: Post-hurricane legends and anti-legends in electronic discussion.” 95-118.

De Vos, Gail.

“A meeting with the devil at the crossroads: A contemporary legend?” 119-159.

Beetstra, Tjalling. A.

“The legendary character of satanic ritual abuse in dispute.” 160-177.

Volume 2 (2012)

Bronner, Simon J.

“”Sort of a hero”: Jack Fassig and the Strongman Theme in American Legendry.” 1-26.

Trauth Taylor, Kathryn

“Ghost Legends and Memorate of Urban Northern Kentucky.” 27-43.

MacGregor, Robert

“Chocolate as an Aphrodisiac: Are Green M&M’s Randy Candy?.” 44-56.

Wilson, Anika

“Threating the Government Disease: AIDS Conspiracy Rumors, the Government of Malawi, and the Rhetoric of Accountability.” 57-84.