Současné pověsti a fámy na Nymbursku
Contemporary legends and rumours in Nymburk district
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ISSN: 2336-6699
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2018Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaSource
Studia Ethnologica Pragensia, 2018, 2, 164-172Keywords (Czech)
folklore, contemporary folklore, contemporary legends, urban legends, rumours, rural areas, urban areas, Nymburk
Following study deals with contemporary legends and rumours that used to be (or still are being)
spread among people in specific rural and smalltown areas of Nymburk district in Czechia. Examples of the most widespread legends and rumours in mentioned area are presented while all
of them were collected during more than a two-year long field research. Text emphasizes how are
these oral narratives being spread, by which segments of society and during which kind of social
occasions. Main hypothesis connected with the fieldwork was that nowadays young people do not
know as many narratives as older ones, so that middle-aged and even older people are those who are
keeping such stories alive. Our next hypothesis was that the younger people are, on the other hand,
more familiar with genres such as conspiracy theories and hoaxes. This would support our thought
that contemporary folklore is being more and more popular in electronic sphere and the Internet.
Last but not least, we wanted to prove that rural and smalltown areas can also produce their own
specific folkloric tales which would not be probably able to survive at all in metropolitan areas and
large cities.