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)
“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us—extraordinary.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)