In many countries, popular wisdom warns children to not take candy from a stranger. About the origin of the warning, I’ve found two different theories. One is rooted into the Halloween tradition, but, honestly, I can’t see any clear recall to the ancient Samhain, and it seems to me that Halloween celebrations are completely open to the advent of dead souls of strangers. With other words, you should ritually fear any dead soul, ancestors and strangers are both included, because the key is the envy of all the dead towards the alive, which is the attractive element that allows the alive to deceive the dead, in order to exploit the occult energies of the underworld. The second theory is bound to a kidnapping of two children, happened in Philadelphia in the year 1874. Two career criminals, Bill Mosher and Joe Douglas, fooled two children, Charley Ross and Walter Ross, by offering candies. None of the children came back home alive. There is no reliable confirmation of the validity of the second theory. More, I can cite the activities of two famous serial killers, related to an offer of candy. The less interesting crimes are those committed by Cordelia Botkin, a female serial killer who murdered her victims with poisoned candies. Differently, I found very notable the story of Dean Arnold Corll, nicknamed the “Candy Man”. The page is especially dedicated to the Candy Man, whose psychological traits can explain the main reason of the traditional warning of the above.
Dean Corll worked for a family enterprise, the Corll Candy Company, that gained him the cited nickname. Between 1970 and 1973, the Candy Man sodomized, tortured and killed 28 persons, among teenage boys and young men. I omit the details, easily findable on the web. The event that provoked the lethal craziness was the shocking discover of being a homosexual, during a period of military service. What was into the horrible mind of the Candy Man? A mixture of the following obsessive thoughts: the loss of child pureness, evidently bound to a strong social and cultural disdain of homosexuality; the envy towards the pureness of children, that leads to a pathologic wish of physical destruction; a sense of superiority, derived from the observation of the stupidity of children, who are easily conquerable with candy; a strange kind of self-absolutory mentality, according to which a young, male body represents a sort of mental candy, able to satisfy a need, to take a moral revenge, and to restore a broken equilibrium. I don’t know how many persons know or remember the Candy Man, however, in my opinion, the story of the cited serial killer is highly emblematic. In effect, there’s a traditional way of thinking, responsible of a cultural diffidence towards homosexuals, that keeps together the offer of candy from a stranger with pedophilia, and the sexual abuse of children, sometimes made by homosexuals.
In conclusion, by one side I agree that homosexuals are still socially discriminated, often without any personal guilt, to the other side, I can’t completely condemn the traditional, popular warning, according to which candy from a stranger is a dangerous offer. By the way, new menaces of the internet, such as fishing and clickbait, are working exactly like candy from a stranger. For that, of course, the mix of the page is about candy from a stranger. Can you accept certain dangers?
File name is “candy from a stranger, by Max Look DJ (Easter 2024)”, 1 hour and 23’ of candies, under the shapes of danceable songs.
The playlist made for fooling:
Dramatics – beware of the man (with the candy in his hand)
James Blunt – sugar-coated
50 Cent – candy shop
Moodorama – sweet toffee
Terry Callier – you goin’ miss your candyman
DJ Skills – in the city (hot candy)
Mike Down feat Sean Paul – liquid candy
Brother Jack McDuff – rock candy y Butler – sugar candy lady
Candy Dulfer – candy
Bow Wow Wow – I want candy
Cameo – candy
A Forest Mighty Black – candyfloss
Led Zeppelin – candy store rock
Cookie Monster & the Girls – c is for cookie (Levan mix)
Candy Man – candy man
Dada feat Sandy Rivera & Trix – lollipop
St. Vincent – candy darling
Astors – candy
Chordettes – lollipop
Iggy Pop – candy
