[UA] New artefact and ritual

[Cassady Toles]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 18:02:07 +0100, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  From: "Cassady Toles" <Con_Job at excite.com>
  Subject: Re: [UA] New artefact and ritual
  
  
  > I don't see a feasable way that the gun could be well known
  
  urban myth?
  
As a student of folklore, modern folklore (urban myths/urban legends) don't
work that way.  They usually lack precise details (the nature of the crime
committed, the caliber of the gun) or the details vary wildly from incident
to incident (they _may_ all agree that it's a non-standard caliber, they
_may_ all know that it has a wierd number of chambers, but those details
would vary from incident to incident).  It could exist as a series of
rumors, but a single rumor with an organized following, that I don't
believe.

Folklore has by definition two traits:  Multiplicity (more than one version
exists) and Indirect Source (friend of friend nature, no one knows where the
story came from).  
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