FOAFTALE
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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY LEGEND RESEARCH
No. 46 May
2000
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Contemporary Legends and Children's Culture
John
Bodner,
Department
of Folklore
h63jmb@mun.ca
On
I
was helping Merrick negotiate the modest goal of the first step, a half foot
from the ground, when I met Roxanne, an eight-year-old girl playing in the park
with a friend of the same age. I say
“met,” but anyone familiar with children's paralinguistic codes will recognize
that children have their own age-specific modes of introduction. Roxanne's first act was to grab
When
Roxanne was secure on the ladder, she asked if
After
some more discussion of family, friends, and why I moved to
This
note has two purposes. First, I would like
to place an appeal for other researchers in this area to contact me regarding
specific narratives of this type.
Second, I would like to sketch some thoughts about the nature of
children's contemporary legends.
What
initially struck me about Roxanne's brief narrative was the way it mimicked
many of the key aspects of adolescent and adult contemporary transmission: the way the tale is embedded in appropriate
linguistic and extra-textual context;
its reference to distant but not dissimilar socio-cultural events,
persons and places; and finally its function as a heuristic and cautionary
parable.
While
one can identify Roxanne’s narrative as a contemporary legend, moving beyond
motif-spotting is difficult in children's culture.
Transmission
of material, poorly understood even in adult situations, has been complicated
by the unfounded assumption that children are either smaller
and simpler adults or they represent a classic redfieldian
folk society (for example, Opie 1967: 3-7).
Individual adults have rather more complex roles in society than children, and
contemporary adults’ culture is shaped by their network of social
relations. Add to this the constant flow
of media (both form and content) and we have a massive movement of cultural
texts whose transmission is likely more predictable than earlier folklorists
thought (for example, Dégh and Vázsonyi 1975).
Understanding
children’s culture requires moving beyond a paradigm in which adults are
normative and kid-culture is measured as more or less complex, more or less
adult. Children's culture is both more
and less complicated than adult’s culture.
It is perhaps more fruitful to see preschoolers’ participation with
individuals and cultural texts as mostly mediated by their parents. This situation is going through a massive
upheaval thanks to television programmes aimed at the very young (for example, Barney
and Teletubbies) and the inclusion of very
young children (six months) into daycare; indeed Sylvia Grider has noted that daycare and
early childhood developments have changed the culture of children by lowering
the age at which children take part in cultural milieux
separate from the family (Grider 124-5). Nonetheless, the general situation is
that children do not form complex social relations and exchange
context-specific cultural texts which act to re/produce social bonds until they
move from the family into other institutions like school or, historically,
work.
While collecting
the unique products of children's culture folklorists’ past efforts were spared
many of the troubling questions of transmission, culture, social relations,
etc. By concentrating on skipping
rhymes, games, jokes and confining these investigations to an institution like
the school, early folklorists like the Opies (1967)
were able to limit the complexities that crowd around the door when issues of
contemporary legends arise. By
introducing these preliminary thoughts on the subject, I hope to begin broader
dialogue, collection and investigation into the use, function and troubling
implications of contemporary legends in children's culture.
Now if you will
excuse me, I'm off to the playground for some sliding, some hide-and-seek and
some fieldwork.
Dégh,
Linda and Andrew Vázsonyi. 1975. "The Hypothesis of Multi-Conduit Transmission
in Folklore." Folklore: Performance and Communication. Ed. Dan Ben-Amos and Kenneth S. Goldstein.
Grider, Sylvia. 1997.
"Children's Folklore." Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs,
Customs, Tales, Music, and Art,
Opie,
Iona Archibald and Peter Opie. 1967. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
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Philip
Hiscock
Department
of Folklore
Email: foaftale@mun.ca
Several
issues back, FoafTale News carried a
series of stories about raptors snatching pets and children. In early 2000, the Guardian Weekly newspaper
carried a news story suggesting that such legends reflect an earlier, more
aggressive strain of raptors.
In
“Nature Watch: Legend of the child‑snatching eagle may have an eyrie ring
of truth,” (GW: 20 January 2000, p. 24), Mark Cocker notes legends of
child-snatching by the white-tailed sea eagle are told throughout the bird’s
range in northwestern
But,
quoting Derek Goodwin (“one of
Meantime,
in
Racked up some 60 kms of x/c
skiing over the last two days. Our trip today took us into
the
Kevin
Butler also passed along to me directly a story he heard in 1999,
about
a lady (somewhere here in Newfoundland) who was feeding a Great Horned Owl on a
daily basis but when she skipped a single day's feeding, the bird made off with
her pet cat! Not even a thank you!
Dogs, dog skins and hamburger stands
Mare
Kõiva in
A
poster to the Snopes Urban Legends mailing list
(urban‑legends@onelist.com -- see www.snopes.com) reported
There
was a very popular Chinese restaurant in downtown
Readers
of FoafTale News will remember
discussion of the legend of a police force using a photocopier (and sometimes a
colander)to extract a confession from a suspected
criminal. Despite being usually reported
as having happened in
The
excerpt reads:
[...]David
Lykken, emeritus professor of psychology at the
More
important, polygraphs are an immensely effective interrogation tool; they need
not detect lies. Lykken tells an anecdote of two cops nterrogating a suspect at a
time when copy machines were not familiar objects. Lacking a lie detector, the
cops put a piece of paper in the copier that said "He's lying!" They
made the suspect place his hand on the strange machine while they asked him
questions. When they didn't like his answers, they'd hit a button on the
machine. It would groan, whir, stink and shoot out a piece of paper that read
"He's lying!"
Realizing
that denial was useless, he confessed.
[PH:
Lydken’s book was reissued in its second edition in
1998: ISBN: 0306457822. It’s not clear
from the Salon article whether the photocopier story is in the first or second
edition, or indeed if Lydken told it orally to Susan
McCarthy.]
Excerpts from 1949 Encyclopedia of Wit, Humor, and Wisdom
Brian Chapman
Email:
wt046@victoria.tc.ca
Here are some
excerpts from a 1949 compendium of jokes, the Encyclopedia of Wit, Humor,
and Wisdom (Leewin B. Williams, compiler and
editor;
An electric
specialty company had had a peculiar damage suit filed against it. The
plaintiff's petition contains these words:
"Plaintiff
alleges that this defen
Regarding this
item, this post from the Urban Legends list may be of interest:
Date:
From:
"Gabriel D. Wollenburg" <GabeW@weber.com>
To: urban‑legends@list1.channel1.com
Subject: [UL]
Looking for Urban Legends Regarding Illegal Patents.
So anyways, I
was talking to my sister, and she said that she knows this guy who told her
this story, which goes like this:
There was a
young girl, who, back in the days when people used wood burning stoves to cook
dinner, foolishly sat down on the stove plate (or whatever it was called) when the
stove was hot. Needless to say she was severely burned. The young girl's
parents sought legal advice, wondering if they should sue the stove's
manufacturer for not protecting her from being burned. After inspecting the
girl's wound, the lawyer told the parents that they could sue the stove's
manufacturer, but he would advise against it. "What do you mean, advise
against it?" the girl's mother demanded, to which the lawyer did not
immediately reply, but instead lifted the young girl's dress, revealing the
scar, which had taken the shape of the stove plate that she sat on. The scar
read: "Patent 1858." "Because you have illegally patented your
daughter," said the lawyer, "You have two options,
you can forget about the accident and go on with your life." The lawyer
lowered his voice, "or you can opt to have the patent legitimized, in
which case your daughter becomes own‑able property, and loses her
individual rights as a human being." My
sister says that it's a true story, because it was told to her by the same guy
who knew about "
In the traffic
court of a large Middle Western city a young woman was brought before the judge
to answer a ticket given her for driving through a red light. She explained to
His Honor that she was a schoolteacher, and requested an immediate disposal of
her case in order that she might hasten away to her classes.
A wild gleam
came into the judge's eye. "You're a schoolteacher, eh?" said her.
"Madam, I shall realize my lifelong ambition. I've waited years to have a
schoolteacher in this court. Sit down at that table and write 'I went through a
red light' five hundred times!" [#3902, P. 535]
Compare the
following:
In court because
of a ticket for driving through red light, I told the judge that I was a
schoolteacher and my case needed to be heard immediately so I could get back to
classes.
A wild gleam
came into the judge's eye. "Madam, I've waited years to have a teacher in
this court," he said. "Now sit down at that table and write 'I went
through a red light' 500 times." [Contributed by Audrey A. Seurer to
Reader's Digest (Canadian edition), March 1999, p.
120.]
A man who was
tormented by bedbugs in a sleeping car wrote an indignant letter about the
matter to the general passenger agent of the railroad.
He was cautioned
by his friends that he would probably not receive so much as a reply, and his
satisfaction was great when, in due course, he received an apologetic letter
assuring him that such a thing would never happen again. His elation was
quashed a moment later, however, by the discovery of the inter‑office
memo which had inadvertently been inserted with the letter and which said
tersely, "Send this lobster the bug letter." [pp. 93‑4, #649]
A customer of a
big
In early
Colonial times, it is said, a "dark day" occurred. For some unexplainable
reason the sun at
At this time the
legislature of one of the colonies was in session. It became very dark and the
assembly was in much confusion. Some wanted to adjourn. One member got the ears
of the other and said, "I make a motion that we secure some candles and
proceed with the business, if the end of the world is about to come I want to
be found doing my duty." [p. 149, # 1028]
The following
excerpt from Sky and Telescope is taken from William R. Corliss, Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena (New
York: Arlington House, 1986), p. 186. The anomalous
dark day, experienced by much of
The
Years ago a
"No killee dawg," answered
Chang, "him al'eady dead when I picked him
up." [p. 151, #1044]
A
A necklace a
woman was wearing at a party was much admired. She took it off to show it
better and it was passed from hand to hand. Later it was not forthcoming.
"The joke
has gone far enough," said the host. "I'll put this silver dish on
the table, turn out the electric light, count one hundred, and expect to find
the necklace on the dish when I turn on the light again."
When he turned
up the light the dish also had vanished! [p. 253, #1784]
The chief
statistician of
A man motoring
across the country offered a stranger a lift. Shortly after the stranger got
into the car the owner noticed that his watch was missing. Whipping out a
revolver he dug it into the stranger's ribs and exclaimed: "Hand over that
watch!"
The stranger
meekly complied before being kicked out of the car. When the driver of the car
returned home he was greeted by his wife who asked him: "How did you get
on without your watch? I suppose you know that you left it on your
bureau." [pp. 347‑8, #2490]
The metal strips
attached to the birds by the Washington Biological Survey have the inscription
abbreviated to read "Wash. Biol. Surv." A
farmer shot a crow having one of these bands attached and then disgustingly
wrote the department, as follows:
"Dear Sirs:
I shot one of your pet crows and followed the instructions attached to it. I
washed it and biled it and surved
it. It was terribul. You should stop trying to fool
the people with things like that." [p. 351, #2520]
The professor
had a stock question that he always asked his theological students ‑‑
Name the kings of
You have got to
go some to beat the other fellow, but when a certain war plant produced a piece
of 120‑gauge wire, which is almost invisible, the boys felt that they had
reached the ultimate of skill. They were so proud of it that they sent a
section of it to a rival plant with the message, "This is just to show you
what can be done."
No word came
back for some weeks. Then a package arrived. Inside was a
steel block on which were mounted two steel standards between which was
a piece of the same hairlike wire. A small microscope
was delicately focused on a certain spot. When the engineers looked at it they
found their rivals had bored a little hole in the wire. [p. 478, #3469]
Many ministers
could, from personal experience, tell of strange names bestowed upon infants at
their baptism, but few could equal the following story told by the bishop of Sodor and
A mother who was
on the lookout for a good name for her child saw on the door of a building the
word "Nosmo." It attracted her, and she
decided that she would adopt it. Some time later, passing the same building,
she saw the name "King" on another door. She thought the two would
sound well together, and so the boy was baptized "Nosmo
King Smith." On her way home from
the church, where the baptism had taken place she passed the building again.
The two doors on which she had seen the names were now closed together, and
what she had read was not "Nosmo King" but
"No Smoking." [p. 532, #3881]
Compare the
following anecdote from a
Every morning
the driver picked up an elderly woman at the same stop. Today he was driving a
new bus. Unfortunately for the old lady, the step on the new bus was a little
higher than what she was accustomed to and made boarding much more difficult
for her.
"Driver, I
can't make it up the step. Could you lower the step a little for me,
please?" she requested.
"Well certainly,
love," the driver responded.
He walked over
to the side destination sign and advanced it to the end, pretending that the
motion was having an effect on the height of the step.
"Is that
any better?" he asked the lady.
"Just a
little more," she said.
The driver
cranked the sign back to where it was before.
"How is
that, love?" the driver inquired.
"This is
much better. Thank you so much," she said.
The woman was so
pleased with the driver's performance that she asked him for his name so she
could write a thank‑you note to the company. The driver feared he would
be reprimanded for fooling his passenger. He was trying to come up with a plan
to get himself off the hook, when he looked up over his head and eyed the No
Smoking sign.
"My name is
... King ‑‑ yes, Mr. King; first name Nosmo,"
he said, breaking up the words on the sign to form a convenient pseudonym.
A few days later
BC Transit received a glowing letter of commendation for NOSMO KING.
[Heinz Hammer, Routes:
The Lighter Side of Public Transit.
Two jokes with
minor similarities to certain ULs:
The absent‑minded
professor was having a physical examination. "Stick out your tongue,"
commanded the doctor, "and say 'Ah.'"
"Ah,"
obeyed the professor.
"It looks
all right," nodded the M.D., "but why the postage stamp?"
"Oh‑ho,"
said the professor. "So that's where I left it." [p. 7, # 9]
It was late when
Pat reached home. Not wishing to disturb his wife he crept in on his hands and
knees, but fate intervened. He struck the bedpost. His wife, sleepily, putting
out her hand, touched his head, and thinking it was the dog, began patting it.
Pat said: "And the saints be praised! I had the
presence of mind to lick her hand." [p. 259, #1833]
I don't know if
either of the following jokes has ever been told as true, but in my opinion
they both have that potential.
He was a
stranger in the neighborhood, and had been brought to a
"How on
earth can I ask a deaf and dumb girl to
"Just smile
and bow to her," replied the doctor, who had done it many a time.
So the young man
picked out a pretty girl and bowed and smiled, and she bowed and smiled, and
away they
They
"I know,
dear," answered the girl tenderly, "but I don't know how to get away
from this deaf and dumb idiot." [pp. 116‑7, # 805]
Two school
teachers from
One of the pair
was inclined to be worrisome when traveling, and she couldn't rest until she
had made a tour of the corridors to hunt out exits in case of fire. The first
door she opened, unfortunately, turned out to be that of the public bath,
occupied by an elderly man taking a shower.
"Oh, excuse
me!" she stammered, flustered. "I'm looking for the fire
escape." Then she ran for it.
To her dismay
she hadn't got far along the corridor when she heard a shout behind her and,
looking around, saw a man, wearing only a towel, running after her.
"Where's the fire?" he hollered. [p. 211, # 1491]
Excerpts from Reader's Digest Fun & Laughter
Brian
Chapman
Email:
wt046@victoria.tc.ca
The
following legend-related texts are taken from the book Reader's Digest Fun
& Laughter (Pleasantville, NY: Reader's Digest Association, 1967). The page number in Fun & Laughter
is given in square brackets while the source given by Fun & Laughter
is noted immediately before the page number.
Ethel
Merman was having lunch in an open‑air cafe in
A
space‑agency psychologist asked one of the astronauts what he was
thinking about as he strapped himself into his craft atop the rocket which was
to hurl him into space.
"All
I keep thinking," he replied, "is that
everything that makes this thing go was supplied to the lowest bidder!"
Roger H. Taylor. [p. 240]
British
engineers feared that they would have to replan the
Dungeness nuclear station in
My friend R. B.
Jones doesn't have a first or middle name -- only the initials R. B. This
unusual arrangement was never a problem until he went to work for a government
agency. The government is not accustomed to initialed employees; so R. B. had a
lot of explaining to do. On the official forms for the payroll and personnel
departments, his name was carefully entered as R (Only) B (Only) Jones.
Sure enough,
when R. B. received his first paycheck, the name he saw on it was Ronly Bonly Jones. Stephen A. Bomer in True.
[pp. 340‑1]
According to
http://www.snopes.com/spoons/fracture/names.htm, this same version previously
appeared in Reader's Digest Treasury of Wit and Humor.
A young married
couple who had just settled down in their new home got a pleasant surprise in
their mail one morning ‑‑ a couple of tickets to one of the best
shows in town. But the donor had omitted to send his name, and for the rest of
the day the couple kept asking, "Wonder who it was?"
They enjoyed the
show; but when they reached home, they found that all their wedding presents
had been taken. There was a note from the burglar, saying: "Now you
know." The Policy. [p. 361]
According to
http://www.snopes.com/spoons/legends/tickets.htm, this same version previously
appeared in Fun Fare: A Treasury of Reader's Digest
Wit and Humor (
The most
embarrassing moment in the life of Jane Wyman happened when she was
entertaining very special guests. After looking over all the appointments
carefully, she put a note on the guest towels, "If you use these I will
murder you." It was meant for her husband. In the excitement she forgot to
remove the note. After the guests had departed, the towels were discovered
still in perfect order, as well as the note itself. Woman's Home Companion.
[pp. 449‑50]
The metal strips
used to band birds are inscribed: "Notify Fish and Wildlife Service,
According to
http://www.snopes.com/critters/edibles/washbiol.htm, this same version
previously appeared in Fun Fare: A Treasury of
Reader's Digest Wit and Humor (
Troubles at
Please send my
money at once as I need it badly. I have fallen into errors with my landlady.
I am very
annoyed that you have branded my oldest boy illiterate. Oh, it is a dirty lie,
as I married his father a week before he was born.
Sir, I am
forwarding my marriage certificate and my two children, one of which is a
mistake as you will see.
Mrs._____ has had
no clothes for a year and has been regularly visited by the clergy.
I have no
children as yet, my husband is a bus driver and works
day and night.
In accor
A
While
serving with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the
* * *
Chain letter & legend parody, April 2000
Neil
Rosenberg
Department
of Folklore,
Email:
nvros@mun.ca
The
following was emailed to me in early April 2000 by a relative in
I was on my way
to the post office to pick up my case of free M&M's (sent to me because I forwarded an e‑mail
to five other people, celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is "MM"
in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend whose neighbor, a young man, was
home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried
Chicken (which i predictable, since as everyone
knows, there's no actual chicken in Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is
why the government made them change their name to KFC).
Anyway, one day
this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full
of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out of the tub he realized that
HIS KIDNEY HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on his mirror that said "Call
911!" but he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his
computer, and there was a virus on his computer that
would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e‑mail entitled
"Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't
a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to prevent
a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the
$250.00 Neiman‑Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates.
(It's true ‑ I read it all last week in a mass email from BILL GATES
HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I
would forward the e‑mail to everyone I
know.)
The poor man
then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but a
voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which unwittingly gave the
bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's expense. Then reaching into
the coin‑return slot he got jabbed with an HIV‑infected
needle around which was wrapped a note that said,"Welcome
to the world of AIDS." Luckily he
was only a few blocks from the hospital ‑ the one where that little boy
who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world
to send him an email and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a
nickel for every email he receives. I sent him two emails, and one of them was a
bunch of x's and o's in the
shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10 people, you
will have good luck but for 10 people only you will only have OK luck and if
you send it to fewer than 10 people you
will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS).
So anyway, the
poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed
another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly
shot as part of a gang initiation. Send
THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will receive 4 green M&Ms ‑‑
if you don't, the owner of Proctor and Gamble
will report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck:
you will
get sick from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in
your shampoo, your spouse/mate will
develop a skin rash from using the antiperspirant which clogs the pores under
your arms, and the U.S. government will put a tax on your emails forever.
I know this is
all true 'cuz I read it on the Internet!!!!!
Brent Albritton
Concerned Email
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Bess Lomax Hawes archive available at CSUN
A
news story in the Los Angeles Times (27 February 2000) tells of the 1996
acquisition by California State University at Northridge (CSUN) of 24 boxes of
student folklore collections made in courses taught by Bess Lomax
Hawes in the 1960s and ‘70s. The article
(“Just Plain Folklore: Archive Preserves Studies of Local Tales” by Patricia
Ward Biederman) highlights contemporary legends
collected by the students. The article
is available in the archives of the LA Times at www.latimes.com. [Thanks to Brian Chapman.]
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· SINGLE or DOUBLE
room
· date of ARRIVAL
and DEPARTURE
· your NAME and
ADDRESS to which ackowledgement may be sent.
Address: All correspondence and contacts may be made through:
Sandy Hobbs,
ASS Department,
Paisley PA1 2BE,
Phone: 0141 848 3772 (office)
0141 848 3768
(messages)
0141 848 3891
(fax)
0141 563 5197
(home0
Email:
sandy.hobbs@paisley.ac.uk
2000 Annual General Meeting: Agenda
A
General Meeting of the ISCLR membership is to be held on
1.
Council Reports
A. President's report
B. Treasurer's report
C. Publications' reports
-
Contemporary Legend
- FoafTale News
2.
Election of members of the Council
3.
Setting of the annual subscription rate
4.
Future conference dates and locations
5.
A.O.B. notified in advance by the Council
6.
A.O.B. notified in advance by any two members of the Society
7.
Date of the next Annual General Meeting.
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ISSN 1026-1001
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