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 - )
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)
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- 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)
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- 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.