Babysitters in urban legends may either be threatened by a killer who has slain the children and now threatens the sitter, or else the sitters themselves are guilty of horrible crimes against their charges. The children in these stories are sometimes gassed, microwaved, or left to starve.
Several medical horror stories play on peoples’ fears of hospitals, operations, and even physical examinations, depicting the horrible ways these may go wrong. Other stories in this category deal with infections, cadavers, and cannibalism.
Other Horrors, always an ambiguous category, includes legends about gruesome deaths, unsanitary living conditions, terrifying experiences, and alleged satanic rituals. Several modern horror legends are actually transformations of old folktales; conversely, some horror stories tend to be told more often nowadays as fictional scary stories than as believed legends.
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