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But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from "Beetle Eyes" to the "Shoplifter's Dilemma" and from "Hands in the Muff" to "the Suicide Club." While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives-particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends"--$$cProvided by publisher. 001557197 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 22, 2022). 001557197 648_7 $$a1800-1899$$2fast 001557197 650_0 $$aUrban folklore$$zGreat Britain. 001557197 650_0 $$aLegends$$zGreat Britain. 001557197 650_0 $$aTales$$zGreat Britain. 001557197 650_0 $$aPopular culture$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001557197 650_6 $$aLégendes$$zGrande-Bretagne. 001557197 650_6 $$aContes$$zGrande-Bretagne. 001557197 650_7 $$aLegends$$2fast 001557197 650_7 $$aPopular culture$$2fast 001557197 650_7 $$aTales$$2fast 001557197 650_7 $$aUrban folklore$$2fast 001557197 650_7 $$aMyth & legend told as fiction.$$2thema 001557197 650_7 $$aCustoms and Folklore.$$2ukslc 001557197 651_7 $$aGreat Britain$$2fast 001557197 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 001557197 655_7 $$aHistory$$2fast 001557197 758__ $$ihas work:$$aNAIL IN THE SKULL AND OTHER VICTORIAN URBAN LEGENDS (Text)$$1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCY7RdchDkwcfQ98dpfRDfV$$4https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 001557197 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aYoung, Simon$$tNail in the skull and other Victorian urban legends$$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022$$z9781496839473$$w(DLC) 2022003496 001557197 852__ $$bebk 001557197 85640 $$3JSTOR$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2tsxkzb$$zOnline Access 001557197 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1557197$$pGLOBAL_SET 001557197 980__ $$aBIB 001557197 980__ $$aEBOOK 001557197 982__ $$aEbook 001557197 983__ $$aOnline 001557197 994__ $$aC0$$bISE