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Halloween Candy Poisoned? Reality and Urban Legend in Halloween Fears

Halloween Candy Poisoned? Reality and Urban Legend in Halloween Fears

Update: 2024-10-31
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A reading of two articles on the alleged poisoning of candy. The reality our favorite holiday ritual and fear in the community. Another on a dramatic case of poisoning as extortion out of Japan. Finally, a third article reviews the motivations for urban legends.




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  • Fears of poisoned candy

  • The Tylenol poisonings

  • The ‘Mystery Man with 21 Faces’ case out of Japan

  • Motivations for urban tales




https://www.history.com/news/how-americans-became-convinced-their-halloween-candy-was-poisoned




- https://www.history.com/news/extra-strength-tylenol-poisonings-1982




- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1980s-crime-ring-that-poisoned-japans-candy-and-never-got-caught




- Donavan, Todd & Mowen, John & Chakraborty, Goutam. (2001). Urban legends: Diffusion processes and the exchange of resources. Journal of Consumer Marketing. 18. 521-533. 10.1108/07363760110404468. 




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- Night of the Shaping Dead, October 2019:


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- Trick or Treat! Behavior Theory and Crime, Dog Training and Beggars’ Night Becomes Halloween, October 2020:


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- Eating at Us: Cannibalism in History, Legend and in the Animal World, October 2021:


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Halloween Candy Poisoned? Reality and Urban Legend in Halloween Fears

Halloween Candy Poisoned? Reality and Urban Legend in Halloween Fears

Timothy Joseph