Living Statue

There is a legend in one of the remote place in Asia which tell a story about A living Statue. The story only emerges recently after some recent misfortune event occur in the village.
The story was told this way.............

There is a statue at one of the corner of the village which looks like a weeping girl. It stand facing our village as it watches our village for any misfortune that might happened. It is a gift, but we used to consider it a curse because it took so much from us and yet can't be disturbed or we'll pay the price. It seems to be constructed from a material wanted by many outsider and yet we don't know why. Even so we were saved by the stone. As one of us shall gave the story, the story shall be the truth cause the truth is what spoken by our mouth. Then the story Shall begin..........

To be continued.....................

Folklore

Folklore is one of the most ancient stories that actually has a based but lack the evidence to proof itself as the right event in history. More that we know about this type of legend that it only based on a tale story which means that it doesn't has any written proof attached to it. Folklore spread from one person to the other through a speaker to the other speaker. So the original story might just been altered through many different culture inherited by the speaker. Those changes might just be incomprehensible to the original tellers through those cultural effect to the story itself. 

There are many folklore in these world that cannot be understand by other society or culture just because the difference of these culture is just to much. And the fact these story emerges from one society without any effect of outsider story made these folklore just beyond the comprehensible of any person that doesn't belong to the society which it belongs to.

Ghost Stories Urban Legends

Ghost stories is one of the most fascinating stories out there that has the probability to be able to summon some urban legend wherever the story started. And it seems that any ghost is promisingly scary for an urban legend to be created it simply is under the flag terrifying situation that might occur. Urban legend is considered to be something that is created from society's curiosity over something that they cannot understand. So something or some story emerges as to satisfied the society need to explain the unexplainable. In many situation it often used as logical explanation for something that cannot be explained at that time. So in a way it created answer for any unanswered question.

Asia is the home of most of the ghost story that emerges in the world around us. Over time the society began to be able to understand the phenomena that happened around us. But even as we grew smarter over time the chances of any ghost stories to emerges is never disappeared from our society. Most of the stories that happened to appear in the Asia mostly appeared because of the will to always be with our love one and the respect to our ancestor in which symbolize the culture inheritance of the ancestor to the predecessor.

Urban legend which appear in the country side seems to connect directly to the culture of the people of the area but it is different then the one that appear in the urban area, in which the legend would try to separate itself with the urban society of the place where the legend emerge. It simply trying to explain the unexplainable event that happened in the society but because of the logical explanation cannot explained it people took something from outside of their society and use it as an explanation different from any countryside which uses their culture with some adjustment to create a legend in which it will become the logical explanation of the unexplainable event that occur.

Urban Legends and Folklore

Urban Legend is very different than folklore yet have some similarities to one another. A legend called urban legend was never meant to refer to legend which comes from an urban area rather than the type of the stories itself. For the reason above many expert prefer to refer to the legend as a contemporary legend. If folklore is strongly attached to the culture of an area an the legend simply become the enhancement of the value of the culture itself. This is rather different than those of the so called urban legend because of the term simply doesn't to the cultural event of some kind in the preference of the coincidental occurrences. The urban legend is more attached to any value that is contradictory than that of the original culture of the society at that time. A folklore to be something that originated from the culture of the society but an urban legend is something that originated from something outside the society or simply put it is something that considered bizarre for the society or something that cannot be understand immediately.

Urban Legends has develop some of the very interesting story telling, since you can spot it immediately for a story to be considered as the one so called urban legend. For example a story that is begin with a sentence: "This story is a true story, it happened my friend's friend" or "This happened to one of our friend in high school and it is a true story". A story that start with this line usually is an urban legend, because it has that of the detailed needed to be true and has a proper location and time line just like a real event, yet it lacks one thing that is important the existence of proof and not possessing any eyewitness also those who knows the the story never been in contact with the actual event or person that is part of the legend. It is always the third person that is telling the story to be heard by others. So the lack of proof always set the differences between the one so called urban legend and the actual history. Also It set it moral value away from the understanding of the citizen different from the folklore.

Urban Legends

The term of "Urban Legend" has not been used since ancient time and it were used as a term that distinguish the differentiation between folklore legend and urban legend. The Legend that is considered a true event by most people but posses no real evident to deliver the truth and simply walk along side the road of methodological comparison. Although the term stated that "the legend" was called Urban Legend it is not necessarily belong or originated from urban area. Because of that many expert prefer to called the legend as contemporary legend rather than "urban legend". Jan Harold Brunvand, professor of English at the University of Utah, introduced the term to the general public in a series of popular books published beginning in 1981. Brunvand has since published a series of similar books, and is credited as the first to use the term vector (inspired by the concept of biological vectors) to describe a person or entity passing on an urban legend.

Urban legend doesn't seem to posses the same characteristic of other legend and any historical event stories because it tend to change in order to suit the people of the place where it spread. Adjusting the story itself based on the level of knowledge of the people at the time it spread is also an occurring event to the urban legends. One example was the story of a woman killed by a spider nesting in her elaborate hairdo. More recent legends tend to reflect modern circumstances, like the story of people ambushed, anesthetized, and waking up minus one kidney, which was surgically removed for transplantation a story which folklorists refer to as "The Kidney Heist"

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