Sewer alligator stories date back to the late 1920s and early 1930s; in most instances they are part of contemporary legend.
Following the reports of sewer alligators in the 1930s, the story has built up over the decades and become more of a contemporary legend.
He popularized the term "urban legend", as opposed to the term "contemporary legend" preferred by most other scholars of folklore.
Pugachev's image according to folk memory and contemporary legends was one of a pretender-liberator.
Satanic panic: The creation of a contemporary legend.
It culminates in the story of the contemporary legend of Panki, the irresistible village beauty who lives naturally.
Biologists and wildlife management officials view the chupacabra as a contemporary legend.
There was a contemporary legend that she had visited Napoleon imprisoned on the island of Saint Helena, but that is probably untrue.
Much of what is known about her has been derived from the literary persona and contemporary legends.
The fortress-town of Viborg stood against a Russian siege: according to a contemporary legend, it was saved by a miracle.
