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There are hundreds of online forums that offer gathering places for "player”s to create stories by taking turns. What makes these "players” voluntarily type up novel-length stories? Through observing more than a hundred websites, and participating in five of them, Csenge Virág Zalka creates a pilot study that delves into this subculture.

Readers of folktales will relish this collection of rare stories from Hungary. Although the tales were told over one hundred years ago, Zalka's research, translation and embellishments have given these almost-lost stories new lives and fresh faces.

Csenge Virág Zalka, a Hungarian storyteller, has collected 55 folktales from around the world about supernatural abilities like superhuman strength, invulnerability, flying, heightened senses, speed, invisibility, healing, agility, precognition, telepathy, fire manipulation, teleportation, water powers, and shifting. These tales represent powers that people have dreamed of, conjured up and strived for through the ages. Many of the powers are p...