Superstitions and Urban Legends - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

06/21/2006 09:59:18 AM · #2

It will be a challenge to come up with legends that most people have heard of. Superstitions might be a bit easier, but still, given the international crowd....
I think I'll sit this one out. It will be fun to see what people come up with though.

TechnoShroom

Canon EOS-30D

06/21/2006 10:33:09 AM · #3

Intriguing but I have to agree that it would be tough to come up with either that the majority of people have heard of. Over the years I've occasionally gone through the snopes site and almost every one I read about I've never heard of except for there.

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

06/21/2006 10:35:00 AM · #4

Here are the results of the first Superstitions & Urban Legends challenge: Link

PhantomEWO

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

06/21/2006 10:38:53 AM · #5

So just an urban legend, well known is best but does it really have to have been proven authentic? Don't think so, the story is usually the best part.

AlexSaberi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

06/21/2006 11:06:33 AM · #6

do you reckon using film urban legends would be ok. Like a horror movie character?

margiemu

Canon EOS-20D

06/21/2006 11:06:33 AM · #7

Originally posted by idnic:

Here are the results of the first Superstitions & Urban Legends challenge: Link

Huh. there are actually some really good shots here. Maybe I'll have to rethink this one... especially since nothing is hitting me upside the head for the glass challenge.

Fujifilm XF 23mm f/2 R WR

06/22/2006 02:19:29 PM · #8

Okay, I need some opinion. Do u think that hell/the devil/demons could classify as urban legends?

aznym

Fujifilm X-T3

06/22/2006 02:21:07 PM · #9

Originally posted by jusdino4it:

Okay, I need some opinion. Do u think that hell/the devil/demons could classify as urban legends?

That would be fantasy.

06/22/2006 02:29:23 PM · #10

But technicly speeking isent hell a legend as is the devil just like the lockness monster

klstover

Panasonic DMC-FZ8

06/22/2006 02:31:37 PM · #11

Legend or not, it seems to me like it would fit superstition.

Quantaray AF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 High-Speed for Nikon

06/22/2006 02:32:01 PM · #12

SCORE!!!!

maestro

Nikon D50

06/22/2006 02:32:20 PM · #13

Urban legend

Urban legends are a specific class of legend, differentiated from "ordinary" legends by their being provided and believed as accounts of actual incidents that befell or were witnessed by someone the teller almost knows (e.g., his sister's hairdresser's mechanic). These tales are told as true, local, and recent occurrences, and often contain names of places or entities located within the teller's neighborhood or surrounding region.

Urban legends are narratives which put our fears and concerns into the form of stories or are tales which we use to confirm the rightness of our world view. As cautionary tales they warn us against engaging in risky behaviors by pointing out what has supposedly happened to others who did what we might be tempted to try. Other legends confirm our belief that it's a big, bad world out there, one awash with crazed killers, lurking terrorists, unscrupulous companies out to make a buck at any cost, and a government that doesn't give a damn.

Folks commonly equate 'urban legend' with 'false' (i.e., "Oh, that's an urban legend!"). Though the vast majority of such tales are pure invention, a handful do turn out to be based on real incidents, and whether or not something actually happened has no bearing on its status as an urban legend. What lifts true tales of this type out of the world of news and into the genre of contemporary lore is the blurring of details and multiplicity of claims that the events happened locally, alterations which take place as the stories are passed through countless hands. Though there might indeed have been an original actual event, it clearly did not happen to as many people or in as many places as the various recountings of it would have us believe.

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Message edited by author 2006-06-22 14:32:59.

06/22/2006 02:34:09 PM · #14

So hell and the devil are urban legends...Because they were made up to scare people, and some are based on people saying that they have seen them.

klstover

Panasonic DMC-FZ8

06/22/2006 02:36:01 PM · #15

Yeah, except that because of religious beliefs some people (me) might try not to be, but might not be able to help being a little biased against a photo that was titled "the legend of hell", for example.

edit:
Okay, so wikipedia says:
A Superstition is the irrational belief that future events are influenced by specific behaviors, without having a causal relationship.

So hell wouldn't fit that either. So I'll go with urban legend then.

edit again:
Folk Religion

I think I'll stop now. I'm confusing myself.

Message edited by author 2006-06-22 14:40:00.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

06/22/2006 02:37:59 PM · #16

Well I am preatty sure I saw the devil, and got a picture of it...LOL

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

06/22/2006 02:39:40 PM · #17

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Message edited by author 2006-06-22 14:40:22.

06/22/2006 02:40:47 PM · #18

So the general consinsous is that a photo conserning hell and or the devil would fit this challenge

hanneke

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

06/22/2006 02:41:01 PM · #19

I hve the best freaking idea. Totally.

But it's a very complicated setup I have to use, and not sure if I can do that. I sure hope so!

klstover

Panasonic DMC-FZ8

06/22/2006 02:44:57 PM · #20

Originally posted by jusdino4it:

So the general consinsous is that a photo conserning hell and or the devil would fit this challenge

Seems like it!

Originally posted by biteme:

I hve the best freaking idea. Totally.

But it's a very complicated setup I have to use, and not sure if I can do that. I sure hope so!

I hope so too! :-)

whiteroom

Canon EOS-5D Mark II