Bloody Mary? (Amy shouldn't read this, I guess)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter, "David" wrote:


> Acire wrote:


> 


> > My thing is mirrors. Ever since I heard the whole "Bloody Mary" 


> > thing, I freak out with mirrors in a dark room. Even if I don't do 


> > the Bloody Mary thing.


> 


> Is this someone who comes out of mirrors in the dark at a set time?


> 


> David, who still wonders if he will see a face at the window at


> night




Did a Google-search - seems Bloody Mary in the mirror is some form of 
urban legend, popular primarily among American girls in late preteens 
or early teens (who will typically do this at sleepovers, slumber 
parties, summer camp, etc.), based on a legend (not very old - assumed 
100 years old at most, as I understood the apges I read) that by 
standing in a darkened room (bathroom?) before a mirror, chanting 
"Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary", the face of said Bloody Mary, 
always horribly mutilated, will appear.  This Bloody Mary is 
supposedly a malevolent spirit; or the ghost of Mary Queen of Scots; 
or the ghost of Mary I of England (who was known as Bloody Mary for 
the great number of protestants put to death during her reign); or 
some Mary (typically Mary Worth, or Mary Whales) who'd murdered her 
children, killed herself and remained a ghost; or the Virgin Mary 
turned evil and leading an army of demons; the devil in a woman's 
guise; etc. etc.  Some variants of the legend hold that she will 
answer a question when summoned, but that she then will have focussed 
her attention on the summoner, who is then never safe before a mirror 
in a darkened room - she might claw the eyes out - or claw the face 
off - or pull the summoner through the mirror (presumably to a place 
that is not nice).




Overall, the Bloody Mary legend seems to be quite a mix of Native 
American and Mexican legends, mixed with some names and rumours of 
local character, and some old European folklore thrown in for good 
measure.  There are those that claim that the legend was created by 
some church to scare kids from attempting to dabble in the occult.




http://www.mythology.com/bloodymary.html seems most informative about 
the whole phenomenon, but the below Google-search and websites also 
seem to contain good information.




http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bloody+mary%22+mirror&sourceid=opera
&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8




http://www.headquartersofhorror.homestead.com/BloodyMary.html


http://www.castleofspirits.com/bloodymary.html


http://www.geocities.com/sopgha/Bloody_Mary.html




Best regards


Christian Stubø