when she came to fabletown, frau totenkinder ostensibly stopped killing newborn infants for her power, instead merely taking a little blood from each newborn fable. however, during a conversation with kay, it is revealed that this is just a ruse to ease the minds of the fabletown community, and she still secretly sacrifices children to maintain her power, only now it is many more than two a year. how she manages this is unrevealed, but she maintains that what she does is legal in the mundane world even though it would be frowned upon by the fable community should they learn of it.