Welcome to Lore Legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper in the dark,

even if they can't always be proven by the history books.

So if you're ready, let's begin. It's one of the few things we all have in common. All of us need food and we have for as long as we've been walking around on this planet. Of course food

can serve all sorts of purposes. For a lot of folks it can be a source of

comfort offering an oasis at the end of a difficult day like a messy plate of tacos or soothing

our aching bodies like a steaming bowl of chicken noodle soup.

But food isn't always sugar and spice and everything nice. It can have a sinister side as well.

All throughout the pages of history are alternate examples of the stuff we eat, where items

usually seen as positive have been transformed into something

darker. Just look at the story of Hansal and Gretel, where two young children are abandoned

in the woods and stumble upon a house, but one that isn't exactly a shelter.

It's a trap where food is used by an old witch to lure children in and fatten them up

so that she can cook and eat them.

Then there's the poison apple that puts snow whites into what can only be described as a

glass enclosed coma. And there's more from the gingerbread man to Goldilocks and the three bears. It seems that

food has always been a key ingredient in so many of the legends and lore we know so well.

And like I said before, that makes sense. Food has the power to unite us, but it can also

tear us apart. Food can give and it can take away. In fact, if the legends are true, that's where the darkest stories can be found.

Because it seems that whenever food is stolen, bad things are just around the corner.

I'm Aaron Mankey, and this is LORE Legends. As I said earlier, eating is a necessary part of life. For many food is associated with

positive thoughts and experiences. We might eat turkey at Thanksgiving and

remember a time when the family was once altogether, a

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