Bloody Marry??? as in “no i’m not going to bloody marry you you bitch”?
i think you mean Bloody Mary, elder sister of Elizabeth I of England, who ordered all protestants to be killed.
>> …stair into the mirror
stair into the mirror? You mean like Alice? I don’t think I’l try it.
Ummm…no, not really. Take a look at my link up there.
What part of Pennsylvania, heresiarch? I know here in Altoona the Bloody Mary thing was around when I was in grade school, along with “Mirror, mirror, disappear” and a plethora of white ladies and lost girls.
Local ghost stories/legends/ULs always fascinated me.
I can remember seeing the first Candyman movie and thinking, “Hey! This is Bloody Mary!”
jayjay
In my town’s version, Bloody Mary had been killed by a mob for practicing witchcraft sometime in the misty past, and her grave was somewhere out in the woods- kids claimed to have seen it. To do the chant, you had to turn your back to the mirror in a dark bathroom and speak her name three times. When you turned around, she would emerge from the mirror and try to kill you. (Even at 8 years old, I couldn’t figure out why I would WANT to conjure a spirit that wanted to kill me.) Or you could not turn around, but just sprint from the bathroom just KNOWING that Mary had been in the mirror behind you.
Interestingly, I find myself now living about 100 miles away from where I grew up, and Mary’s Grave is also somewhere out in the woods here, and several of my students claim to have seen it.
My Japanese friends once told me about the Far Eastern equivelant of Bloody Mary – Hanako-san. According to legend, Hanako-san was a schoolgirl who died in the bathroom one day (it’s always THIS VERY BATHROOM in THIS VERY SCHOOL). The cause of death varies from version to version, but suicide, murder, and WWII firebombing are popular.
Like Bloody Mary, Hanako-san can be summoned with a special chant or by repeating her name a certain number of times. Then she appears and kills you. Why anyone would bother to summon a murderous ghost is as much a mystery to me as it is to FisherQueen, but apparently some girls do it.
Unlike Bloody Mary, Hanako-san can be blamed for anything odd that happens in the bathroom, from mysterious voices and cold chills to stolen purses and empty toilet paper dispensers.
I suspect that J.K. Rowling may have based Moaning Myrtle on Hanako-san, but I don’t have any proof of this.
well, bloody mary could be one reason i don’t have mirrors around. there are a lot of different mirror things you could do by candlelight or in the dark. mirrors are just evil in the dark.