Can we lernd about urban legends?

Urban legends are scaries stories about rare thinks that anybody knew if it realy happened or not, but anyway people tell them to others as if they were truth,

Here, in Dominican Republic we have a lot of urban legends, for example, "Maria la O".

It tells us that Maria Was a girl who lived near the river, she was a mocking liar and she didn't care what her moder said. Everybody said that she was a bad girl, she didn't belive in God.

It tells us that one holly fryday she went to the river and started swiming and then she became in a half fish, and everybody said that it was a punishment for disobey her mother and for making fun of Gad, then she started to cry so much until to converted the river in the occean.

Fathers tell taht story to teach kids obedience, they say that if they disobey they will run into problems and recieve a big punishment from Gad.

And then, I think that we can use some urban legends to teach good things and learn about life.