A Psychoanalytical Approach to the TV Series The No-End House: The Fascinating House of Desire by Jessica Folio

“…Such are the first urban-legend like pieces of information given by one character on the No-End house, the second season title and the cornerstone around which the plot of the TV series Channel Zero revolves. …”
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Impact of the South Atlantic Anomaly on radiation exposure at flight altitudes during solar minimum by Matthias M. Meier, Thomas Berger, Thomas Jahn, Daniel Matthiä, Mona C. Plettenberg, Markus Scheibinger, Kai Schennetten, Michael Wirtz

“…This leads to highly increased levels of ionizing radiation and related impacts on spacecraft in Low Earth Orbits, e.g., correspondingly increased radiation exposure of astronauts and electronic components on the International Space Station. According to an urban legend, the SAA is also supposed to affect the radiation field in the atmosphere even down to the altitudes of civil aviation. …”
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Myth Buster: Do Engineers Trust Parametric Models Over Their Own Intuition? by Valerdi, Ricardo

“…The approach to answering these questions is similar to that of the popular television show MythBusters which aims to separate truth from urban legend using controlled experiments. In MythBusters, methods for testing myths and urban legends are usually planned and executed in a manner to produce the most visually dramatic results possible, which generally involves explosions, fires, or vehicle crashes. …”
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THE MATTER PERTAINING TO THE POSTMODERN TOURIST PRODUCTS REPRESENTING THE AREA OF THE OLD CITY OF JAKARTA by Derinta Entas, I Gede Mudana

“…The products include City Tour, Heritage Trails; Junior Heritage Trails: Fun Learning in History; Sunda Kelapa Cycling Tour; Kampung Arab Cycling Tour; Marine Tourism (Wisata Bahari): Sunda Kelapa Harbour and Onrust Island; Jakarta Heritage Trails: Free Old City Tour; Chinatown Journey Experience Through The Eyes of History; Old City Adventure (Kelana Kota Tua); Going Along the Fortress of Batavia City; Jakarta Urban Legend Tour; Past Time Trip (Plesiran Tempoe Doeloe). …”
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Tactical urbanism, public policy reform, and 'innovation spotting' by government : from Park(ing) Day to San Francisco's parklet program by Davidson, Mariko Mura

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Climate-ready Landscape Plants: Garden Roses Trialed at Reduced Irrigation Frequency in Utah, USA by Ji-Jhong Chen, Youping Sun, Lorence R. Oki, Jared A. Sisneroz, Karrie Reid, Lloyd L. Nackley, Ryan N. Contreras, Soo-Hyung Kim, Ursula K. Schuch, Darren L. Haver, Miro Stuke, Allison Fron, Kelly Kopp, Scott B. Jones, Lawrence Hipps

“…The objective of this study was to determine the impact of reduced irrigation frequency on visual quality, plant growth, and physiology of five garden rose cultivars, including ChewPatout (Oso Easy® Urban Legend®), Meibenbino (Petite Knock Out®), MEIRIFTDAY (Oso Easy® Double Pink), Overedclimb (Cherry Frost™), and Radbeauty (Sitting Pretty™). …”
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LE MANUSCRIT PHANARIOTE de DOINA RUȘTI – UN BUILDUNGSROMAN BALKANIQUE by Carmen DĂRĂBUS

“…The story of the Bucharestian women enriched from the name Ghiorma it is one of the most pow- erful urban legend. The sense of well chosen name can lead to glory or can destroy you.…”
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From Tradition to Contemporary Belief Tales: The “Changing Life” of Some Slovenian Supernatural Beings from the Annual Cycle<br>Od tradicije do sodobnih zgodb: spreminjajoče življe... by Monika Kropej

“…Discussed are the changing images of these folk belief narratives resulting from continuously changing cultural and social contexts, while supernatural figures or spirits acquire a demythicised image in contemporary belief tales and urban legends.…”
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The Jinn – The Culprit of the Arabic World by Kinga Németh

“…Further, several interviews with the local Arabic community, blogs, articles of urban legends, and Ruqyah are the backbones of the present paper. …”
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Academic Carelessness, Bootstrapping, and the Cybernetic Investigator by Hannah Drayson

“…The following discussion is concerned with certain forms of poor practice in academic publishing that give rise to “academic urban legends.” It suggests that rather than simply consider phenomena such as poor citation practices and circular reporting as mistakes, misunderstandings, and evidence of lack of rigor, we might also read them as evidence of a particular kind of creativity—for which misunderstandings, assump-tions, and failures of diligence are mechanisms by which potentially influential ideas manifest. …”
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Leggende di “sequestro” e di “espianto degli organi”. Uno studio tra Italia e Camerun by Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Lia Giancristofaro

“…The myth of the “kidnapping” and “mutilation of bodies by occult powers / for occult ends” is also present in periods other than that of COVID-19 and falls within the vein of “urban legends” and “conspiracy theories” that attribute sacrilegious actions to minorities or other groups considered dangerous for their being essentially antisocial. …”
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Leggende di “sequestro” e di “espianto degli organi”. Uno studio tra Italia e Camerun by Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Lia Giancristofaro

“…The myth of the “kidnapping” and “mutilation of bodies by occult powers / for occult ends” is also present in periods other than that of COVID-19 and falls within the vein of “urban legends” and “conspiracy theories” that attribute sacrilegious actions to minorities or other groups considered dangerous for their being essentially antisocial. …”
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Where Do the Rails Lead to? Rail Transport’s Mythology in Contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Fantastic Fiction (Preliminary Remarks)<br>Kuda vedut rel’sy? Mifologija rel’sovogo tra... by Larisa Fialkova

“…The metro literary mythology is closely linked to the folklore of caves and urban legends, although some influence of the fairytale is also felt. …”
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The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture. Translation into English by Asia A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva

“…In conclusion, the authors explore the evolution of zombies in modern urban legends and demonstrate the continuity of traditional demonology that develops into modern narrative. …”
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Narrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2023: An Estonian Case Study on AI Lore by Andrus Tins

“…In addition, this study revealed a specific fluidity beyond genre boundaries that has also been observed in urban legends.…”
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Theology of <i>Supernatural</i> by Pavel Nosachev

“…In the 15 seasons of its existence, <i>Supernatural</i>, conceived as a story of two evil-hunting brothers wrapped in a collection of urban legends, has turned into a global panorama of world demonology while touching on the nature of evil, the world order, theodicy, the image of God, etc. …”
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Haunted house film studies: the mother character as the victim of hauntings in Malaysian and Hollywood haunted house films by Ahmad Muhyiddin Yusof, Nur Azmina Mohamad Zamani, Naizrul Mubin Mohd Noor, Muhammad Aiman Abdul Halim

“…Furthermore, other crucial elements which have been adapted by local and Hollywood filmmakers in directing the haunted house movies are such as inspired from real events’, novels, local ghosts, gender, urban legends, and folk tales. However, have we ever noticed about the role of female characters in most of these haunted house films where these female characters play important roles as being the ones who are usually possessed in these movies? …”
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey by Sanal, Aslihan

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Asian Horror: The Factors Driving Thai And Japanese Horror Film Industry: An Analysis Towards Ringu (1998) And Shutter (2004) by Wong , Siew Peng, Azizul Rahman , Mahfudz

“…However, Asian countries possess their own unique set of traditions and superstition, urban legends, as well as religious beliefs that are fundamental elements of their national identities such as Buddhism in Thailand & Shintoism in Japan. …”
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