The modern world likes to pretend we are not susceptible to crazy myths and folk tales. Science and technology have dispelled all the legends out there, and so looking under the bed in the middle of the night is a little less frightening.
Urban legends abound.
Urban legends are our folktales and we all are the suckers who buy into them and create them. Some are true, a lot are false, but they all reflect our feelings and thoughts towards science, technology, the media and the modern world. Today's folklore is growing exponentially on the Internet. An online petition circulated throughout the Net for a while demanding the halt of dihydrogen monoxide. This chemical compund was labelled as the primary ingredient in acid rain and a major contributor to the greenhouse effect.