From: freemand@cosmoslair.com   
      
   On 9/3/2016 9:35 AM, Charles Bishop wrote:   
   > Over in alt.usage.english urban legends came up and someone thought they   
   > had to be false, made up. I pointed out that they can be true and showed   
   > the definition found on snopes.com.   
   >   
   > I wondered if the fact that they can be true and still be urban legends   
   > was mentioned by Jan Harold Brunvand in any of his books?   
   >   
      
   In the preface to "Curses! Broiled Again!", Brunvand does imply that in   
   his statement:   
      
   "Sometimes actual events (...) generate urban legends, but legends about   
   real incidents get so localized and stylized that they soon exist   
   independently as oral stories, detached from their origins.  For   
   example, a few cars really have been filled with concrete, and perhaps   
   one such case started the legend.  But the events described did not   
   occur in all the times and places where 'The Solid Concrete Cadillac' is   
   told."   
      
      
      
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