Excerpts from an interview with Margaret Maher, Geraldine Cronin, Angela O’ Donoghue and Maureen Conty about urban folktales. For this interview's catalogue entry click here

Excerpt 1: Woman who found a lizard in her stomach in Greece.

Excerpt 2: Woman who found a snake in her stomach in Turkey.

Excerpt 3: Modern Legend: Cats in a Chinese restaurant in Dublin.

Excerpt 4: Modern Legend: Dogs in a Chinese restaurant in London.

Excerpt 5: Two Modern Legends: One about the Lizard in the stomach and the other about a snake in the stomach.

Excerpt 6: Narrative about 17th-century women having mice nests in their hair.

Excerpt 7: Narrative about mice and rats in Guinness vats.

Excerpt 8: Modern Legend about tinned animal food used in hamburgers.

Excerpt 9: About passing on Modern Legends.

Excerpt 10: Attitude to belief in Modern Legend.

Excerpt 11: Modern Legend: cat in the microwave.

Excerpt 12: Joke: what's black and taps at the window? A baby in the microwave.

Excerpt 13: Kernel of tapeworm Modern Legend on Barrack Street Cork.

Excerpt 14: Telling tapeworm stories at lunchtime in college.

Excerpt 15: Modern Legend: A family dog gets cooked and served to them in a Chinese restaurant.

Excerpt 16: Joke about fast food restaurant on Barrack street serving greyhound hamburgers.

Excerpt 17: Narrative about a woman buried alive.

Excerpt 18: Modern Legend: Vanishing hitchhiker.

Excerpt 19: About opportunities for telling modern legends.

Excerpt 20: About opportunities for telling modern legends.

Excerpt 21: Discussion about attitudes toward belief in Modern Legends.

17/04/1985

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