Front Matter

Batman in the closet: a New York legend

1-21

Welcome to the mainland, welcome to the world of AIDS: cultural viability, localization and contemporary legend

23-40

"Read all about it! Elvis eaten by drug-crazed giant alligators": contemporary legend and the popular press

41-70

Contemporary legends: narrative texts versus summaries

71-91

Reflections on the problems on transcribing contemporary legends

93-117

Anglo-American perceptions of Navajo skinwalker legends

119-136

Joseph E. Brown Hall: a case study of one university legend

137-153

Early Virginia analogues of some modern legends

155-164

A clarification

165-166

The contemporary legend in literature towards an annotated checklist, part 2

167-179

Die Spinne in der Yucca-Palme and Die Maus im Jumbo-Jet (Brednich)

181-183

Rumors: Uses, Interpretations, and Images (Kapferer)

183-186

Alcool de singe et liquer de vipère... (Le Quellec)

186-191

Rumeurs et legendes contemporaines (Campion-Vincent and Renard)

192-194

Books received for review

195-197

Back Matter