Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder

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  • Bill Ellis Pennsylvania State University Автор

Abstract

We present a paper by folklore and contemporary legends scholar Bill Ellis. Here the phenomenon of folklore ostension is analyzed in extensive detail as exemplified by legends of Satanists. Translated after: Bill Ellis (1989). Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder. Western Folklore, 48(3), 201-220. with support from the Russian Science Foundation (project № 14-18-00590-П «Folklore texts and practices as cultural tradition model: a comparative typological research»).

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Published

2018-01-15

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018)

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Ellis B. Death by Folklore: Ostension, Contemporary Legend, and Murder // Folklore and Urban Anthropology. 2018. Vol. 1, no. 1. P. 91–106.

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