) The story is considered an urban legend.

Less illustrious uses refer to folklore and urban legend and a variety of explanatory narratives which are constructed with methodological flaws or biases.

This story was later confirmed to be an urban legend by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

If a story is found to be untrue, it is disqualified, but particularly amusing ones are placed in the urban legend section of the archives.

Contemporary narratives common in the Western world include the urban legend.

An urban legend has it that the phrase refers to an old English law under which a man could legally beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb ( though no such law ever existed ).

Groucho was the subject of an urban legend about a supposed response to a contestant who had nine children which supposedly brought down the house.

Candyman, for example, examined the link between an invented urban legend and the realistic horror of the racism that produced its villain.

Thus, freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any logical fallacies or intellectually limiting effects of authority, confirmation bias, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmas.

* Kosher tax, an urban legend and antisemitic conspiracy theory

A widely disseminated urban legend tells of a radio conversation between a U. S. or British naval vessel and what is believed to be another ship on a collision course.

Further, modern mythopoeia such as fantasy novels, manga, and urban legend, with many competing artificial mythoi acknowledged as fiction, supports the idea of myth as ongoing social practice.

An urban legend claims Dolophine was named for Adolf Hitler.

There is also an urban legend that the first game of polo in America was played in Boerne, Texas at retired British officer Captain Glynn Turquand's famous Balcones Ranch.

* Paul Is Dead, a 1960s urban legend that Paul McCartney was dead

These ersatz tales — which included the notion that Prince Albert invented the piercing that shares his name in order to tame the appearance of his large penis in tight trousers — are widely circulated as urban legend.

The existence of for-profit snuff films is generally considered an urban legend.

The original story of Sweeney Todd was quite possibly based on an older urban legend, originally based on dubious pie-fillings.

A late ( 1890s ) reference to the urban legend of the murdering barber can be found in the poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson — The Man from Ironbark.

It was something of a success, and the story spread by word of mouth and took on the quality of an urban legend.

An urban legend claims that the doomed tank might have been overfilled in late 1918 so that the owners could produce as much rum as possible before Prohibition came into effect.

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

Despite this, the identification of the tarot cards with the Egyptian Book of Thoth was already firmly established in occult practice and continues in modern urban legend to the present day.

An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.

Industrial agriculture, deforestation, roads, anthropogenic climate change and urban sprawl are amongst the most significant human activities in regards to their effect on stimulating erosion.

The Temple of Mithras is one example of the popularity of mystery religions amongst the rich urban classes and temples to Mithras also exist in military contexts at Vindobala on Hadrian's Wall ( the Rudchester Mithraeum ) and at Segontium in Roman Wales ( the Caernarfon Mithraeum ).

Individualist anarchist philosophy attracted " amongst artists, intellectuals and the well-read, urban middle classes in general.

Despite the lack of literary coverage, a style of film shot amongst the urban debris and depicting the gritty lives of those who had to rebuild the destroyed cities called the rubble film, developed in the years after the end of World War II.

The Boerboel remains the guarding breed of choice amongst current day farmers and is very popular for the same reason in urban communities.

To promote nationalistic pride amongst Indonesian people, Sukarno interpreted these ideas in his dress, in his urban planning for the capital ( eventually Jakarta ), and in his socialist politics, though he did not extend his taste for modern art to pop music ; he had Koes Plus imprisoned for their allegedly decadent lyrics despite his reputation for womanising.

Although such earthquakes are not amongst the most energetic, they are sometimes the most destructive, as conditions combine to form an urban earthquake which greatly affects urban seismic risk.

Sirik Matak had been acting Prime Minister during the Republic's first year, when Lon Nol's health had been extremely poor, but had engendered considerable resentment due to his administrative style and royal connections ; there was also growing frustration amongst young, urban Cambodians at the continued corruption and inefficiency of the regime.

It must be kept in mind that the scaling laws that were used to produce the table below, assumes amongst other things, a perfectly level target area, no attenuating effects from urban terrain masking, e. g. skyscraper shadowing, and so on.

This brought about large-scale discontent among the Russian populace, particularly amongst the peasantry, who felt disadvantaged by Communist grain requisitioning ( prodrazvyorstka, forced seizure of large portions of the peasants grain crop used to feed urban dwellers ) and as a result often refused to till their land.

The incident furthered the distrust amongst rural and urban cantons in the Old Swiss Confederacy and was one of the reasons for the conclusion of the Stanser Verkommnis ( Treaty of Stans ) in 1481, an important coalition treaty of the cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy

Land use once again changed, with pockets of urban development amongst the acreages, themselves now valuable for the leisure opportunities they offered rather than as agricultural holdings.

Despite lack of a progressive economy, general lack of government funding for public services such as public transport, and continued unsustainable urban growth, the city has seen sustained growth in its cultural institutions such as art, music, literature, performance, etc., as many contributors to and patrons of the arts relocate to Melbourne amongst excellent independent community support structures such as press and radio and a thriving cultural community.

John Hewitt ( 1907 – 1987 ), whom many consider to be the founding father of Northern Irish poetry, also came from a rural background but lived in Belfast and was amongst the first Irish poets to write of the sense of alienation that many at this time felt from both their original rural and new urban homes.

The M8, more explicitly the Glasgow section, is unusual amongst UK motorways in that it directly serves ( and bisects ) a large urban area, whereas most other motorways bypass such conurbations.

" To complicate matters, the administration of the site is divided amongst four different municipalities, making a unified effort to stop the urban encroachment challenging.

Clogging is thought to be considered a very early form of street dance, since it evolved in the streets, factories and dance parties during the 18th century ( or before ) amongst dancers that were considered a part of the UK, Western Europe and Appalachian urban countercultures at the time.

As mayor, Herriot improved relations between municipal government and local unions, increased public assistance funds, and launched an urban renewal programme, amongst other measures.

Because of governmental control over resources and bad weather in 1958, 1959 and 1960 famine became widespread amongst the countryside, with many food resources being exported to urban areas.

While the Chinese government maintained their support for Arab states, a general pro-Jewish outlook has been observed amongst China's urban populace.

However, it was different from Götaland and Svealand, but not Norrland, in that Swedish was not the majority language in this part of the kingdom, except for some areas along the coastline and amongst the nobility and the urban upper classes.

It has maintained a very strict rubric to the urban contemporary format since its inception in 1976, which is rare amongst larger markets urban-oriented radio stations who have shifted to the Mainstream Urban or Urban Adult Contemporary formats ; this approach has been protected by default only because WVEE has no counter-competing sister stations in Atlanta.

Despite the steady encroach of the urban sprawl in recent times which has eroded the sense of a ' regional centre ', Kalamunda remains a quiet town amongst the jarrah forests on the Darling Scarp.