The poisoned candy myths are urban legends that malevolent individuals could hide poison or drugs, or sharp objects such as razor blades, needles, or broken glass in candy and distribute the candy in order to harm random children, especially during Halloween trick-or-treating.
Read more about Poisoned Candy Myths: Development of The Candy Tampering Myth, Debunking The Myths, False Claims of Stranger Poisoning, Media and The Myth, Sharp Objects
Famous quotes containing the words poisoned, candy and/or myths:
“So arise and face me.
I am poisoned with rage of song.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“I’m headed for a land that’s far away
Beside the crystal fountains.
So come with me, we’ll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains.”
—Unknown. The Big Rock Candy Mountains (l. 5–8)
“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really seem to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)