Curses! Broiled Again!

Posted on 27 January 2018 by Jan Harold Brunvand

Did your cousin s wife s dentist s daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked Has your husband s brother s nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive If so, you ve heard or you yourself may have told two of the seventy plus legends in this collection.Urban legends are 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 But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF friend of a friend , they aren t true Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia Among them are The Bible Student s Exam, The Pregnant Shoplifter, The Ice Cream Cone Caper, Don t Mess with Texas, and Mrs Fields Cookie Recipe. New Read [ Curses! Broiled Again! ] author [ Jan Harold Brunvand ] – kino-fada.fr You ll have to jump back to the late eighties, when most of these stories were collected Things like microwave ovens and tanning beds were the height of new technology, so they terrified lots of people, and inspired the worst urban legends of the time Didn t we all hear of small pets being accidentally microwaved, and brides to be having their insides broiled from too many visits to the tanning salons Some of the legends were so ridiculous nobody could have believed them...This is a rare book that goes on both the fiction and nonfiction shelves It s a collection of urban legends, many of which are pretty funny.A little wearisome at time, but then again, most urban legends are Especially when you ve heard them eleventy billion times already.A great, fun book about all kinds of urban legends Really fun read.I don t really know what I expected from a 30 year old book about urban legends.I pulled Curses Broiled Again off the bookshelf last month for a re read after juggling several other books, I finished this one earlier today.Brunvand, a folklorist and college professor, has been researching urban legends for at least 20 years and has written or co written about a dozen books on the subject In each chapter, he recounts the legend, adds in variants as he s heard read them and then investigates the possibility of it being true, as well as the larger implications of the lege I pulled Curses Broiled Again off the bookshelf last month for a re read after juggling several other books, I finished this one earlier today.Brunvand, a folklorist and college professor, has been researching urban legends for at least 20 years and has written or co written about a dozen books on the subject In each chapter, he recounts the legend, adds in variants as he s heard read them and then investigates the possibility of it being true, as well as the larger implications of the legend itself.The title comes from the story about a young woman who visits several tanning salons over a period of a few days only to notice that she s starting to smell funny Upon visiting the doctor, she is told that she has cooked her internal organs and has very little time to live The lessons learned are a beware of new fangled technol...Everyone knows someone who knows someone to whom this really happened Remember the girl who tanned so much that she cooked herself from the inside out How about the kid who suffered a serious injury from eating Halloween candy that had a razor blade inside it What about the little girl who died on the merry go round when bitten ...A lot of it is outdated, but I still hear people talking about the acid stars Brunvand was the great debunker of that urban legend When I was in college over 20 years ago I read one of his books He taught me a lot of valuable lessons, about believing a lot of the garbage that goes around...Wow As Halloween was approaching, I picked up this book on a whim to read up on some urban legends It was written by a Utah professor so I thought it would be neat to hear some local tales However, I failed to see that it was published the year I was born So,...I seem to be addicted to Brunvand s urban legend books This is one of his longest, but not one of his best I really like the whole section devoted to academic legends, but in general, his earlier books had the choicest creepiest legends and the most in depth analysis The Vanishing Hitchhiker is stil...

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27 January 2018

Jan Harold Brunvand