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Bachelors English University of Utah

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According to Wikipedia, Jan Harold Brunvand is an American retired folklorist, researcher, writer, public speaker, and professor emeritus of English at the University of Utah. Brunvand is best known for popularizing the concept of the urban legend, a form of modern folklore or story telling. Urban legends are "too good to be true" stories that travel by word of mouth, by print, or by the internet and are attributed to an FOAF: friend of a friend. "Urban legends," Brunvand says, "have a persistent hold on the imagination because they have an element of suspense or humor, they are plausible and they have a moral."

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Jan Harold Brunvand's Published Works

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The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings (1982) (194)
The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction (1968) (133)
American folklore : an encyclopedia (2006) (53)
The Choking Doberman and Other 'New' Urban Legends (1984) (41)
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends (1995) (36)
The Vanishing Hitchhiker (1976) (35)
The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends (1993) (33)
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends (2001) (31)
The Mexican Pet: More "New" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites (1986) (27)
Curses! Broiled Again!: The Hottest Urban Legends Going (1989) (24)
Down in the Holler: A Gallery of Ozark Folk Speech (1953) (20)
Folklore: A Study and Research Guide (1976) (15)
The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story (1999) (14)
The Folktale Origin of The Taming of the Shrew (1966) (14)
A Classification for Shaggy Dog Stories (1963) (13)
Readings in American folklore (1981) (10)
Encyclopedia of urban legends, updated and expanded edition (2012) (10)
Folklore in the News (and, Incidentally, on the Net) (2001) (9)
Honey in the Horn and “Acres of Clams”: The Regional Fiction of H. L. Davis (2017) (4)
The Study of Contemporary Folklore: Jokes (1972) (4)
Norway's Askeladden, the Unpromising Hero, and Junior-Right (1959) (4)
A dictionary of proverbs and proverbial phrases from books published by Indiana authors before 1890 (1961) (4)
As the Saints Go Marching by: Modern Jokelore concerning Mormons (1970) (4)
Norwegian settlers in Alberta (1974) (3)
A guide for collectors of folklore in Utah (1971) (3)
The Study of Romanian Folklore (1972) (3)
Some News from the Miscellaneous Legend Files (1990) (2)
Sailors' and Cowboys' Folklore in Two Popular Classics (1980) (2)
The big book of urban legends : adapted from the works of Jan Harold Brunvand (1994) (2)
Canal Water and Whiskey: Tall Tales from the Erie Canal Country (1968) (1)
Maryland Folklore and Folklife (1970) (1)
Mississippi Folklore Register (1969) (1)
Sources of Texts for Comparative Studies of Tales (1960) (1)
Lane County Bachelor: folksong or not? (2012) (1)
Urban Folklore from Colorado: Typescript Broadsides@@@Urban Folklore from Colorado: Photocopy Cartoons (1979) (1)
Aspen Art in the New Mexico Highlands: A Photo Essay (1972) (1)
"Sarah," a Tongue-Twister Song (1959) (1)
More Non-Oral Riddles (1960) (1)
Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre (review) (2003) (1)
New Directions for the Study of American Folklore (1971) (1)
Folk Song Studies in Idaho (1965) (1)
Three More Variants of the 'Tag Tale' (1961) (1)
Hungarian Peasant Costumes@@@Hungarian Folk Customs (1974) (1)
Response: On Folklore Book Reviews (1969) (0)
Cowboy and Western Songs: A Comprehensive Anthology (1970) (0)
Folklore from Kansas: Customs, Beliefs, and Superstitions by William E. Koch (review) (2017) (0)
A Note on Names for Cars (1962) (0)
"Romanian Design Portfolio," American Fabrics/Fashions (1978) (0)
On Abrahams' Besom (1970) (0)
Classic American Graffiti by Allen Walker Read (review) (2016) (0)
My Summer with Archer, and Some Unfinished Business: The 1999 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture (1999) (0)
Jokes about Misunderstood Religious Texts (1965) (0)
From the Book Review Editor (1973) (0)
Notes: A Response to Michael Owen Jones (2001) (0)
Further Notes on Sex in the Classroom (1962) (0)
Mock Recipes for "Planked" Game (1962) (0)
More Car Names from the West (1964) (0)
Folkloristics: An Introduction / the Study of American Folklore: An Introduction / the Dynamics of Folklore / Amerikanische Folkloristik (1998) (0)
Popular Culture (Frank Oglesbee) (1982) (0)
"The Unfortunate Rake" on Skis (1959) (0)
Type 1365A in The Octopus (1963) (0)
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales by George Bird Grinnell (review) (2017) (0)
Urban Legends: A Collection of International Tall Tales and Terrors (review) (2010) (0)
H. L. Davis by Paul T. Bryant (review) (2017) (0)
American Fakelore on Matchbooks (1964) (0)
Erratum: Mythical Creatures of the U. S. A. and Canada: A Roundup of the Mythical Snakes and Worms, Insects, Birds, Fish, Serpents, and Mermaids, Animals and Monsters That Have Roamed the American Land (1980) (0)
Sex in the Classroom (1960) (0)
The Baby-Sitter's Nightmare : Tales Too Scary to Be True (1998) (0)
Child 277: Ballad and Tale (1964) (0)
Miscellany of Idaho Superstitions (1963) (0)
Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture (2011) (0)
The exploding toilet and other tales too funny to be true (1998) (0)
The Taming of the Shrew (Routledge Revivals): A Comparative Study of Oral and Literary Versions (2015) (0)
Bibliografi over Dansk Folkekultur, 1960@@@Dansk Folketradition@@@Det 15. Nordiske Folkelivs- og Folkemindeforskermode@@@Det lille Folk (1966) (0)
Crumbs for the Court Jester: Folklore in English Departments (1969) (0)
Mountain Climber's Song (1958) (0)
Folklore of the Great West: Selections from Eighty-three Years of the Journal of American Folklore by John Greenway (review) (2017) (0)
Have You Heard the Elephant (Joke) (1964) (0)
Classic American graffiti (1977) (0)
Casa Frumoasa: The House Beautiful in Rural Romania (2003) (0)
The Taming of the Shrew : A Comparative Study of Oral and Literary Versions (2015) (0)
The Chicken-Fried Rat: Tales Too Gross to Be True (1998) (0)

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