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The fivesquare city : the city in the religious imagination / James Dougherty.
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- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 80-3388 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Land of the millrats / Richard M. Dorson.
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER 82-68 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
There are alligators in our sewers, and other American credos / Paul Dickson and Joseph C. Goulden ; illustrated by R.J. Shay.
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- New York : Delacorte Press, c1983.
- 1983
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER 83-2473 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The vanishing hitchhiker : American urban legends and their meanings / Jan Harold Brunvand.
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- New York : Norton, c1981.
- 1981
- 1 Item
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The choking doberman and other "new" urban legends / Jan Harold Brunvand.
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- New York : W.W. Norton, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text HAER 84-2375 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russkie narodnye gorodskie prazdniki, uveseleni︠i︡a i zrelishcha : kone︠t︡s XVIII-nachalo XX veka / A.F. Nekrylova.
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- Leningrad : "Iskusstvo", Leningradskoe otd-nie, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 86-459 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Mexican pet : more "new" urban legends and some old favorites / Jan Harold Brunvand.
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- New York : Norton, c1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 86-6505 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Paraszti szájhagyomány, városi szóbeliség / Dobos Ilona.
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- Budapest : Gondolat, 1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 88-2239 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Perspectives on contemporary legend : proceedings of the Conference on Contemporary Legend, Sheffield, July 1982 / edited by Paul Smith.
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- Sheffield [South Yorkshire] : Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, University of Sheffield, 1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 87-8771 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Perspectives on contemporary legend. Volume II / edited by Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith and J.D.A. Widdowson.
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- Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, for The Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 87-8770 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The bosom serpent : folklore and popular art / Harold Schechter.
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- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 88-4969 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Curses! Broiled again! : the hottest urban legends going / Jan Harold Brunvand.
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- New York : Norton, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 89-7218 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The parlour and the streets : elite and popular culture in nineteenth century Calcutta / Sumanta Banerjee.
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- Calcutta : Seagull Books, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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Russkie narodnye gorodskie prazdniki, uveseleni︠i︡a i zrelishcha : kone︠t︡s XVIII-nachalo XX veka / A.F. Nekrylova.
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- Leningrad : "Iskusstvo", Leningradskoe otd-nie, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 88-3617 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Crime-victim stories : New York City's urban folklore / Eleanor Wachs.
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JLE 88-1215 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.The hidden culture : folklore in Australian society / Graham Seal.
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- Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
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Never try to teach a pig to sing : still more urban folklore from the paperwork empire / Alan Dundes, Carl R. Pagter.
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- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 92-1544 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russkiĭ gorodskoĭ romans : uchebnoe posobie / ︠I︡A.I. Gudoshnikov.
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- Tambov : Tambovskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ pedagogicheskiĭ in-t, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QCT 92-6077 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.The baby train and other lusty urban legends / Jan Harold Brunvand.
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- New York : W.W. Norton, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 93-7152 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
I heard it through the grapevine : rumor in African-American culture / Patricia A. Turner.
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 93-460 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Contemporary legend : a folklore bibliography / Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith.
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- New York : Garland, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR Z5981 .B46 1993 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Die Maus im Jumbo-Jet : neue sagenhafte Geschichten von heute / Rolf Wilhelm Brednich.
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- München : C.H. Beck, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 95-15 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Pražské tajemno / Pavel Růt.
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- Praha : Volvox Globator, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QW 94-2756 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Im Lichte der Grossstadt : volkskundliche Erforschung metropolitaner Lebensformen / Thomas Scholze.
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- Wien : Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 94-14291 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
La famosa invasione delle vipere volanti e altre leggende metropolitane dell'Italia d'oggi / Paolo Toselli.
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- Milano : Sonzogno, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 95-5999 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
La superstición en la ciudad / por Marino Pérez Alvarez, comp. ; I. Amigo Vázquez ... [et al.].
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- Madrid : Siglo XXI de España Editores, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 96-10282 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Tra di noi : storie di soprannaturale urbano / Carlo Oliva.
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- Milano : Baldini & Castoldi, c1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 95-15345 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Pelicans & chihuahuas and other urban legends : talking about folklore / Bill Scott.
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- St. Lucia : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 97-498 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sometimes the dragon wins : yet more urban folklore from the paperwork empire / Alan Dundes and Carl R. Pagter.
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- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 9-NAZ 97-53 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sacred cows / Anita Heiss ; illustrated by Danny Eastwood.
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- Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 97-5969 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
"There are other ways to get happy" : African-American urban folklore / Jerrilyn McGregory.
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- 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1947 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Urban legends and the Japanese tale.
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- Institute for Cultural Research, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAX M-748 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Srednevekovyĭ gorodskoĭ folʹklor i so︠t︡sialʹna︠i︡a struktura srednevekovogo goroda : uchebnoe posobie / A.V. Chernyshov.
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- Tverʹ : Tverskoĭ gos. universitet, 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
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Contemporary legend : a reader / edited by Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith.
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- New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 97-6978 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Too good to be true : the colossal book of urban legends / Jan Harold Brunvand.
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- New York ; London : W. W. Norton, c1999.
- 1999
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 99-11922 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The truth never stands in the way of a good story / Jan Harold Brunvand ; with a chapter on the heroic hacker by Erik Brunvand.
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 00-4553 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Leyendas urbanas en España / Antonio Ortí y Josep Sampere ; prólogo de Jan Harold Brunvand.
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- [Barcelona] : Ediciones Martínez Roca, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 01-3528 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Les veus del carrer.
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- [Tarragona : Edicions El Mèdol], 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 01-4156 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Spiders in the hairdo : modern urban legends / collected and retold by David Holt & Bill Mooney.
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- Little Rock, AR : August House, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 01-7871 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Urban legends : the truth behind all those deliciously entertaining myths that are absolutely, positively, 100% not true! / by Richard Roeper.
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- Franklin Lakes, N.J. : Career Press, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 01-11400 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Alligators in the sewer : and 222 other urban legends / Thomas J. Craughwell.
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- New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFC 01-1565 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Did you hear about the girl who-- ? : contemporary legends, folklore, and human sexuality / Mariamne H. Whatley and Elissa R. Henken.
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- New York : New York University Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 01-10510 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Encyclopedia of urban legends / Jan Harold Brunvand ; artwork by Randy Hickman.
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- Santa Barbara, Calif. ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 01-3141 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Hollywood urban legends : the truth behind all those delightfully persistent myths of film, television, and music / Richard Roeper.
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- Franklin Lakes, NJ : New Page Books, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Whispers on the color line : rumor and race in America / Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner.
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 01-1079 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains? : a further collection of photocopier folklore / Alan Dundes & Carl R. Pagter.
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- Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 01-14232 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Legend and belief : dialectics of a folklore genre / Linda Dégh.
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- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
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Współczesne legendy miejskie / Dionizjusz Czubała.
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- Katowice : Uniwersytet Śląski, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
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De source sûre : nouvelles rumeurs d'aujourd'hui / Véronique Campion-Vincent, Jean-Bruno Renard.
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- Paris : Payot, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 03-2319 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Urban legends : the as-complete-as-one-could-be guide to modern myths / N.E. Genge.
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- New York : Three Rivers Press, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
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