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Brunvand, Jan Harold, author.

Curses! Broiled again! : the hottest urban legends going / Jan Harold Brunvand.

First edition.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©1989.

copyright ©1989

335 pages ; 22 cm

A collection of all-new urban legends - those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth.

Urban folklore -- United States.

Legends -- United States.

United States -- Social life and customs.

Urban legends.

Hottest urban legends going

Includes index.

Horrors: Curses! Broiled again! -- Death in the funhouse -- Bug in the ear -- Plant's revenge -- Death and danger in the air -- Halloween sadists -- Blue star acid -- Are we paranoid? -- Last kiss -- Message under the stamp -- Fatal boot -- Graveyard wager -- Snake in the strawberry patch -- Mutilated bride-tourist horror story -- Automobile legends: Smashed VW bug -- Body on the car -- Fear of frying -- Lost wreck -- Arrest -- Unstealable car -- Two hitchhikers -- Stolen speed trap and other car crimes -- Celebrity's car breakdown -- 'R' is for race -- Dishonest note -- Ice-cream car -- Bargain sports car -- Wife left behind -- Pig on the road -- Animal legends: Pet nabber -- Fifi spills the paint -- Crushed dog -- Shooting the bull -- Lawn order in New Zealand (and elsewhere) -- Not my dog -- Leashed dogs -- 1988-Year of the rabbit-Hare drier -- Flying kitten -- Bungled rescue of the cat -- Other legends of accidents and mishaps: Heel in the grate -- Ice-cream-cone caper -- Pregnant shoplifter -- Barrel of bricks -- Trouble with technology -- Waiting for the ice man-another domestic drama -- Sex and scandal legends: AIDS Mary -- Handwriting on the wall (or mirror) -- White slavery in Wellington -- Mistaken identities -- Blind man -- Lover's telephone revenge -- Business, professional, and government legends: Mrs. Fields cookie recipe -- Postcards for little Buddy -- Talk-show tales-Dave's behind -- Welfare letter and other language blunders -- Going by the old-fashioned rules -- Grandma's washday-or was it? -- Grocery scam -- Back to the drawing board-some architectural legends -- Two trade-related legends -- Veterans' insurance dividend -- Don't mess with Texas -- Will -- Homemade lie detector -- Academic legends: Bird-foot exam -- Unsolvable math problem -- College con artists and how they operate -- Bible student's exam -- Telltale report -- Suicide rule -- Let's give toll takers and medical students a hand -- Student stunts-kiwi style -- Roaming gnomes -- Trained professor -- Small-world legend -- Index.

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