Read the fine print

Welcome to Folk U - here's an introduction- before you hit "send" come to this blog to see if there's any truth to the warning you got by email about some scary thing happening to someone you don't know; before you decide that Obama is bashing gays because some guy says so on a blog on Huffington's post; and before you believe anything anyone says-
who you gonna call? Folklorists!

as a folklorist and an activist I've learned you need to research things you hear from a "friend of a friend' (see Jan Brunvand, "Too Good To Be True, the Big Book of Urban Legends")

so read the fine print and ask the same questions you would ask before you moved in with someone- who is saying this and why are they saying it?