Panorama The Black Ambulance and other urban legends
Did you know there was a black ambulance riding around Czechoslovakia during the 1980s, kidnapping children for their organs? Ask any Czech who lived at that time and they’ll confirm it to you. In fact, however, it’s unlikely that anything like that ever happened. It’s just a legend created by oral tradition; in other words, it’s an urban myth. Ethnographer Petr Janecek recently published what is his second collection of such stories, proving that folklore is definitely not a matter of history. Its title - Cerna Sanitka or The Black Ambulance - refers to one of the most popular stories of its kind.
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