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:
“Remember the fun we had when you poisoned me?”
—Robb White, and William Castle. Frederick Loren (Vincent Price)
“Why, what a candy deal of courtesy
This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have “really happened,” or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.”
—Northrop Frye (1912–1991)