A Quote by Eric Kripke
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
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I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.
I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.
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Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
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