Alejandro De Angelis. Bringing pop culture into the classroom ...

I have done intenstive research on urban legends for years. In 2006 I delivered a presentation which I called 'Who's Afraid of the Boogeyman? Cautionary Tales and Children Today' so as to play with the question 'Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?'. ... A woman comes back home after doing the shopping and finds her dog, a doberman, making funny noises, unable to breathe properly. She drops her bags and rushes to vet's office with the dog in order to have it looked at. ...