This is an urban legend about a murderer that escaped from prison. An unknowing woman goes to bed and hands her hand over the edge so that her dog could lick it. She is woken up in the night by a dripping sound so goes downstairs to check all of the taps. Seeing that nothing is dripping she goes back to bed. A few hours later she is woken up by the dripping again. This time she decides to check the bathroom taps. She gets up and turns on the bathroom light and sees her don hanging in the shower, with blood dripping from its torn up torso. Written on the mirror in blood is the phrase 'Humans Can Lick Too!'
I think this urban legend is a good one to use for this project because it is not that well known and has many key features and elements that I could pull out to create my animation out of. Looking into the origins of this urban legend, I found some other examples that incorporated similar key features such as the writing on the wall and murder. One of the most similar is 'Aren't You Glad You Didn't Turn on the Light?'. Although the exact dates of the first times this story was told is unknown, a printed version was made in 1871. Dr. Joseph M. Stubbersfield (Durham University), who analyses stories such as this one pointed out that these stories become popular and spread easily because they are not that far from the truth (your dog could be a person and that you should never take your safety for granted). Like with any urban legend or story similar to this one, that are spread by word of mouth, there are many variants of it. For example instead of a murderer it's an ex boyfriend, instead of a dog it's a person living with a partner who in the morning is someone completely different or the murderer being found when the womans boyfriend returns and finds him hiding somewhere in the house (under the bed, in the closet or in the basement). With some of the variations only having minor differences, the position of the writing changing from the bathroom wall / mirror / floor to the bedroom, or with different severities of how the dog was killed. After researching further into this urban legend I think that it would be the ideal story to use for this project.
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