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	A Look at Urban Legends: the Gothic Outweighs the Enlightened
		Labeled urban not so much for their setting but to separate them from age-old folklore, urban legends are also referred to as "contemporary legends." Urban legends are ambiguous in nature and are thus an element of the gothic.
		Myths are "sacred narrative[s] explaining how the world and mankind came to be," folktales are "fictional narratives," and "the third category, legend, consists of narratives, believed and or told as true set in the post-creation time period" (Bennett IX).
		Urban legends also differ from myths or folktales in that the narrative deals only with the span of time in which the legend occurs; there is no past or future.
	www.davidson.edu /academic/gender/urbanlegends.htm (0 words)

	AIDS myths and urban legends - Biocrawler
		Because the worldwide spread of AIDS has had such a tragic effect on millions of people world-wide, a number of myths, urban legends, and conspiracy theories have arisen surrounding the disease.
		A common myth that originated in the 1980s is that AIDS is a "gay plague".
		The perpetuation of the "oral sex is safe" myth probably is driven by the fact that people typically find oral sex far less pleasurable with a condom or dental dam, and consequently cognitive bias inclines people to believe it is safe.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/AIDS_myths_and_urban_legends (0 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: What's so urban about urban legends?
		A myth is an orally transmitted story about the supernatural, believed by its traditional tellers, generally set in the distant past, and accounting for the origin of something.
		However, "contemporary legend" has one disadvantage in common with "urban legend": Not all of the stories are really legends, in the sense that that word is used by folklorists.
		A legend is a narrative--a story with at least one character and a plot--passed on by word of mouth and believed true by the teller but actually false.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/murbanlegend.html (0 words)

	Facts about aids myths and urban legends
		In some parts of Africa, an urban legend stating that having sexual intercourse with a virgin will cure AIDS has gained considerable notoriety.
		This myth has been seen at the center of certain recent stories involving sexual abuse and child rape.
		Opponents pointed out that, if this was true, hemophilia was a sin and God loved lesbians (who had a lower incidence of AIDS than either gay men or heterosexuals of either sex).
	www.supercrawler.com /Facts/aids_myths_and_urban_legends.html (0 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for myth
		myth A sacred or religious tale whose content is concerned with the origins or creation of natural, supernatural, or cultural phenomena.
		Myths have been studied as fractured sources of oral history, as clues to the society's...
		Myths relate the events, conditions, and deeds of gods or superhuman beings that are outside ordinary human life and yet basic to it.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=myth (777 words)

	AIDS myths and urban legends (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because the worldwide spread of AIDS has had such a tragic effect on millions of people world-wide, a number of myths, urban legends, and conspiracy theories have arisen surrounding the disease.
		A common myth that originated in the 1980s is that AIDS is a "gay plague".
		The perpetuation of the "oral sex is safe" myth probably is driven by the fact that people typically find oral sex far less pleasurable with a condom or dental dam, and consequently cognitive bias inclines people to believe it is safe.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/AIDS_myths_and_urban_legends (574 words)

	ipedia.com: AIDS myths and urban legends Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In some parts of Africa, an urban legend stating that having sexual intercourse with a virgin will cure AIDS has gained considerable notoriety.
		This myth has been seen at the center of certain recent stories involving sexual abuse and child rape.
		During the early 1980s, the disease's disproportionate occurrence within the gay community led some Christian fundamentalists to brand AIDS the 'gay plague', a device used by God to show his "displeasure" with homosexual behaviour.
	fav.ipedia.com /aids_myths_and_urban_legends.html (406 words)

	The Snuff film: the making of an urban legend - Urban Legends Skeptical Inquirer - Find Articles
		Urban legends - as I wrote in American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1996) - are apocryphal contemporary stories, told as true but incorporating traditional motifs, and usually attributed to a friend of a friend.
		Many urban legends, as the writers of the following two essays recognize, are benign, silly, barely credible, and easily disproved; they are told more for entertainment than for any moralistic purpose, although there is often an implicit message or warning in them as well.
		These are but three of innumerable urban legends perpetuated by everyone from children too young to understand their significance to businesspeople gossiping around the water cooler during their breaks.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2843/is_3_23/ai_54600092 (1101 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: AIDS Mary
		Commonly known as "AIDS Mary" or "AIDS Harry," this legend came into prominence in late 1986 and was as much an expression of the fears of that time as anything else.
		Though AIDS had been with us for years before that, it was only in the late 1980s that heterosexuals began to wake up to this Grim Reaper walking among them, not just their gay siblings.
		AIDS is a fearsome disease: once HIV-positive, the infected lives under a death sentence.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/madmen/aidsmary.asp (1755 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: (What are Urban Legends?)
		Urban legends are best described as cautionary or moralistic tales passed along by those who believe the incidents befell either folks they know personally or acquaintances of friends or family members.
		Legends of the genre are passed along in both oral and written form.
		Urban legends are passed along by people we trust implicitly, so it never occurs to us to doubt them.
	www.snopes.com /info/ul-def.asp (841 words)

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	HIV (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AIDS is thought to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century and it is now a global epidemic.
		The majority of new AIDS cases in the United States are reported on the basis of a low T cell count in the presence of HIV infection.
		AIDS is one of the top three causes of death for African American men aged 25â“54 and for African American women aged 35â“44 years in the United States of America.
	abcworld.net /HIV (6631 words)

	Myths and Legends
		Students will be asked to read, write, and do research concerning myths and legends in their area, as well as in surrounding areas, and with different cultures.
		The Local Myths and Legends unit will also allow students who are hesitant readers to find personal connections to their own lives and surroundings in the text.
		The myths used in this unit are all Native American myths from tribes found in the surrounding area.
	www.runet.edu /~kgleason/Myths%20and%20Legends.htm (0 words)

	HIV/AIDS in Zambia (February - March 2000)
		At a workshop to integrate AIDS in school curriculum organised by Unesco in Lusaka yesterday, Dr Barku said there was need to effect full security in the education sector if the nation was to get rid of the disease.
		Over the years since the discovery of the first AIDS case questions have arisen as to whether HIV/AIDS is a curse from God or God's wrath on the people for their misconduct or disobedience to His law.
		He argued that AIDS was mostly transmitted through sex and if sex was "God's idea who are you to pretend AIDS is not there and not talk about sex." He said it was time to discard what he termed "too holy" attitudes and support others.
	www.medguide.org.zm /aids/aidszam24.htm (8288 words)

	Sexual Aids -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, rarely written Aids) is a disease characterized by the destruction of the human immune system.
		AIDS is the result of an infection with HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
		First aid is normally performed in medical emergencies, before the intervention of emergency medical technicians or doctors.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/131/sexual-aids.html (944 words)

	Urban Legend(s) News Page 2
		Legend has it that Highway Sheila was a ghost who roamed on Higginson Highway and was often seen standing in the middle of the road, pleading for motorists to stop, or hitching a lift.
		They are the kind of tales which could become urban myths, spreading from person to person until nobody really knows if they are true or not.
		An urban legend is an oral narrative (a rumor if you must) told as a true story.
	www.wintersteel.com /Urban_Legends_Newsp2.html (3260 words)

	Folklore, Rumors (or Rumours) and Urban Myths Interfering with Development and Relief Efforts
		Folklore, rumors (or rumours) and urban myths / urban legends often interfere with relief and development activities -- even bringing such to a grinding halt.
		Nigerian officials and aid workers resolved most of the controversy by undertaking a variety of anti-rumor campaigns over two years, including sending Islamic religious leaders to observe a battery of tests on the vaccines in South Africa and India.
		Another urban legend says that fluoride is an industrial waste product, and that fluoridation of municipal water supplies is a way to get rid of such.
	www.coyotecom.com /development/folklore.html (0 words)

	Answer this...: AIDS :: Origins of HIV (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While I've casually entertained controversial theories on the origin of AIDS before, I've not yet been convinced that AIDS was man-made for the purpose of genocide.
		The Origins of AIDS probes one of the most vexing, highly charged areas of AIDS research: how and when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was introduced to humans.
		Of course, all of this is predicated on the hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS, which, like every other scientific theory, is in question.
	drinkthis.typepad.com /answer_this/aids_origins_of_hiv/index.html (598 words)

	Internet Hoaxes and Urban Legends
		American folklorists started collecting "urban belief tales" in the 1940s, and the field blossomed in the 1960s as researchers began analyzing why these bizarre narratives were accepted as truths.
		Urban legends can travel by word of mouth or print, but the Internet has become a prime vehicle for their dissemination.
		"Many urban legends are a reflection of current societal concerns or a search for excitement," said Barbara Mikkelson, who with her husband David, runs www.snopes.com, a Web site that debunks urban legends.
	www.simpsoncity.com /forum/hoaxes.html (818 words)

	Matamoros News
		For instance, the tale of the "Woman of the Sierrita." According to Cesar Humberto Isassi Cantu, Reynosa's city historian, the story is a variation of a Spanish one in which a driver picks up a beautiful woman dressed in white at a road crossing and merrily proceeds up the highway with his new, angelic passenger.
		Urban legends play on cultural phobias, hysterias, stereotypes and fears.
		More often than not, urban legends are harmlessly passed from one person to the next- a process now accomplished in the optic time of the high speed of the 21st Century Internet Society.
	www.nmsu.edu /~frontera/Oct-Dec05/Matamorosnews.html (1220 words)

	Antiretroviral Drugs -- HIV Drugs
		It was approved by the FDA on Mar 19, 1987 for AIDS and ARC (which is "AIDS Related Complex", a now-defunct medical term for a sort-of pre-AIDS illness) via the then-new FDA accelerated approval system.
		The unavailability of alternatives to treat AIDS altered the risk/benefit ratio, with the certain toxicity of HIV infection now outweighing the risk of drug toxicity.
		Protease inhibitors changed the very nature of the AIDS epidemic from one of a terminal illness to a somewhat manageable one.
	www.biotech100.com /biotechnology_encyclopedia/antiretroviral_drugs.htm (2925 words)

	New York Daily News Online \| New York Now \| Cityscape \| Tales From the Urban Crypt
		From sewer alligators to skyscraper-spooking ghosts, urban legends are the contemporary equivalent of fairy tales, injecting a note of the fantastic into otherwise predictable modern life.
		But no matter how bizarre, most urban legends are just this side of believable — and often betray real concern about issues such as crime, health care and sexual promiscuity.
		That's one legend that the MTA won't confirm or deny, citing security reasons: "When it comes to the famed 'Money Train' urban legend, all I can say is there may be one and there may not be one," says MTA spokesman Tom Kelly.
	www.delorenzosdugout.com /urbanlegends.htm (3269 words)

	78 Magazine
		North County has its very own special area of urban legend, known as “Questhaven.” A place that is nothing more than a tree-shrouded residential neighborhood, in the hills of Elfin Forest between La Costa and Escondido.
		Legend: After a woman is bitten by a spider, she notices that the wound just gets bigger and more irritated over time.
		Legend: A woman driving home is annoyed by another driver behind her that keeps flashing their headlights.
	www.78magazine.com /issues/03-01/feat/urban.shtml (1066 words)

	AIDS Myths, HIV, Urban Legends, Infection - Guide4Living
		AIDS Myths, HIV, Urban Legends, Infection - Guide4Living
		During the 20 years that AIDS has been in the public eye, countless urban legends, myths and wonderful conspiracy theories have sprung up, each claiming to be the cause of the current HIV pandemic.
		Some of these myths are fairly harmless – like the one about the virus being transmitted through mosquitoes which have bitten someone with HIV.
	www.guide4living.com /hiv-aids/myths.htm (545 words)

	Urban Legends & Modern Myths
		An Urban Legend is a short tale that is told and retold as true, although it usually has little or no basis in reality or can't be confirmed one way or another.
		All of the following are legends which are assumed to be false except for the ones in the Truth category
		Urban Legends and Modern Myths and the distinctive likenesses, layouts and prose contained in this site are ©2003, Warped Images Unlimited, all rights reserved in the US and abroad.
	www.warphead.com /urbanlegends (0 words)

	Mythology & Folklore of America: Indian History
		There are urban legend stories amongst the kids that there are horrible things in the basement and are afraid to go there.
		The Noodleman is a particularly scary urban legend of Sayville.
		Folklore is the body of verbal expressive culture, including tales, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs current among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that culture, subculture, or group.
	truelegends.info /sayville/folklore.htm (2113 words)

	West Africa Doctors and HealthCare Professionals Network - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slowing the onset of AIDS allows people to continue leading a relatively normal life, fully contributing to the social and economic life of their country.
		In Uganda, awareness of AIDS is demonstrated to be over 99 percent and more than three in five Ugandans can cite two or more preventative practices.
		The spread of the epidemic across this region is closely linked to the migration of labour from rural areas to urban centres, which generally have a higher prevalence of HIV.
	www.wadn.org /wadn/modules/icontent/index.php?page=67 (2450 words)

	Legends & Hoaxes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Urban Legends Reference Pages: Before you forward that horror-story e-mail to "everyone you know" (that's usually the tip-off), check the Urban Legends Reference Pages (http://www.snopes.com) to see if it's a hoax.
		According to the Urban Legends Reference Pages, the claim that it's recommended one attempt to rhythmically cough during a heart attack to increase the chance of surviving it is
		Killer in the back seat -- Read what the Urban Legends Reference Pages says about the claim that murderers lie in wait in the backseat women's cars, only to be discovered hiding there by an observant gas station attendant.
	www.dacurrie.com /legends.html (1303 words)

	Urban Legends - College Library Undergraduate Research Guide
		According to the Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, urban legends are defined as "apocryphal contemporary stories, told as true and usually attributed to a friend of a friend (FOAF)." Other terms used to describe these stories are contemporary legends, modern legends, and modern urban legends.
		Refer to "urban legends and beliefs" and "hoaxes" in the index of any volume.
		Members are especially concerned with ways in which legends merge with life: real-life analogs to legend plots, social crusades that use legends or legend-like horror stories, and search for evidence behind claims of alien abductions and mystery cats."
	college.library.wisc.edu /resources/subject_guides/urbanlegends.htm (882 words)

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