“They cut out kidneys at a disco” – Urban Myth. Reflections on the Verge of Folk Studies and Medical Anthropology

Abstract

The goal of the study is to describe and interpret an urban legend of macabre happening that reportedly has taken place in the “Protector Prestige Disco” in Wola Krzysztoporska, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland. It was a mysterious nephrectomy that today is being reported not only in a local discourse but also in the Internet – a space of the development of contemporary folklore. The author quote many strange stories narrated by dwellers of Wola Krzysztoporska. The author contextualise the urban legend in folkloristic and medical antrhropology