Urban legend : All The Best Free Flash Games Relating To Urban Legend

A urban legend is a story that is only a slightly different from a legend in its traditional sense.
Both are meant to be told or read by people, and to spread to such an extent that it becomes impossible to know when and how it started.
Indeed, the purposes of legends can be multiple (frighten, fool or marvel people) and they rely on the fact that their content will be trusted, when the whole story has been made up.

That's why clouding the starting point of legends is important: when living people in a state of uncertainty, they're more likely to give the benefit of the doubt to a legend story.
Everybody knows urban legends are myths, but everybody is delighted to hear one and to spread the word.

Legends, like a distorted mirror of reality, used to tell the story of historical facts that truly happened, but in exaggerating some aspects.

Urban legend


It was a way to transmit an historical heritage, by sometimes adding a didactic or a moral component.
Urban legends have no such purposes: they update old folklore stories, or tell new ones that could have never “happened” before.

First, they are transmitted orally, from word to mouth, but now also via modern medium:
who never received a chain-letter in his mail-box, asking to send it back to 20 contacts or else he will be cursed?
Internet is the greatest platform to spread stories like a wildfire.
Urban legends are therefore usually synonymous with hoaxes and rumor.

A movie trilogy called “Urban Legends” is dedicated to the subject.
Among the most famous stories, there are:
The contraceptive pills changed for aspirin, the chicken sauce that is actually some pus from buboes, the dog being dried on the microwave, calling 3 times “bloody Mary” in front of a mirror makes her appear, the scream recorded on a song that is a real murder scream.

It is even claimed that in the Wizard of Oz, one of the actor playing a dwarf hang himself to a tree and that it can be seen when watching the it...

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