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The Legend of the Poisoned Candy: By far, the most popular Halloween candy urban legend spins the tale of a stranger who laces candy with poison and distributes the goods to innocent children dressed up as cowboys and princesses. The actual reported number of strangers doing such a thing on Halloween is virtually nil.
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die , only two children have died as result of Halloween candy poisoning -- but the perpetrators were relatives not strangers. It's your family you should worry about. Why this myth persists despite ample evidence to the contrary is perhaps more fascinating than the myth itself. The Heaths believe that, like any other "sticky idea," the myth stays in the popular psyche because it is simple and unexpected, with concrete, vivid details that can be spun into infinite variations on a theme.
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Samira Kawash, writing in The Atlantic , chalks it up to our stubbornly blind trust in large corporations: The factory does it better, tastier, safer. Given the rate of food recalls, we probably ought to fear Mars, Inc. Nonetheless, considering that the potential harm is so great and the cost of prevention so small, it probably doesn't matter that this myth is a product of our collective imagination.
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As Kawash sheepishly acknowledges after thoroughly deconstructing the myth, "My scholarly, historical, rational self tells me that psychopaths don't go to the trouble to bake cookies or soak loose lemon drops in LSD. My hovering, nervous, worried mother self doesn't care. Unwrapped jelly beans, into the trash you go. Or sign in with a social account: Has Some of the Best. Top 5 Halloween Candy Urban Legends. What evil lurks in this year's bag of Halloween candy? Tien Nguyen October 25, Few people intentionally give out pot treats on Halloween. Apples with pins, just one of many Halloween urban legends.
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The title says it's a book of tales, the description which is correct says it's only 7 pages. If you read the description, that's about half the story.
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It's also not very well written with punctuation and grammatical errors. While reading the dialog, I was hearing the voices as if they were amateur actors reading cue cards exactly as written with no emotion. This was a cute little story about some Halloween fun that went horribly wrong, I enjoyed it but it was way too short. What other items do customers buy after viewing this item? The Best Sauce Recipes Ever!: The Big Blank Comic Book: Draw Your Comics from Scratch.
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