Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a series of three collections of short horror stories for children, written by Alvin Schwartz and originally illustrated by Stephen Gammell. In 2011, HarperCollins
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A poison dress is a dress or robe that has in some way been poisoned, and is a common motif in legends and folktales of various cultures, including ancient Greece, Mughal India, and the United States.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
…Blackwood's novella The Wendigo a game called "The Dead Man's Brains" a bogeyman story a number of urban legends, including the legends of the hook, the poison dress, the killer in the backseat, and the babysitter and the man upstairs and a selection of jokes and humorous folktales 2 More Scary Stories to Tell in…
Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707), considered by his subjects a fakir or wizard, was credited with using poison khalats to eliminate some of his perceived enemies.