Urban Legends Urban Legends emerge mysteriously and spread spontaneously in varying forms. This popular form of storytelling or folklore usually contains elements of horror and or humor and tries to relay a moral or message. These myths are often memorable and make good storytelling. Some urban legends are true and others are false, but it is the quality and believability of these stories that keeps us captivated. It is the plausibility of these stories that …
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…in fact or completely fabricated. But it is every storytellers privilege, if not their livelihood to enchant us with their expertise of words and as, Mark Twain one of the greatest modern American authors of his time, so eloquently described his occupation in saying, "I will set down a tale....it may be history, it may be only legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened. But it could have happened....."