Bloody mary legend biography wikipedia
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Where did the legend of Bloody Mary come from?
Standing in front of a mirror in a darkened room with a candle, chanting "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary" won't cause a cocktail to appear (as much as some people might hope!). However, according to legend, the ritual might cause a ghastly apparition to materialize. Are you brave enough to try it yourself?
Many a girl at a slumber party has played the Bloody Mary game, or at least heard of it. Nobody really knows how long people have been telling the story of Bloody Mary, but historians began attempting to trace the roots of the story in the 1970s [source: Dube]. The details of the Bloody Mary "game" tend to vary, but the basic tenets are always the same.
The participant enters a darkened room with a lit candle. She or he looks into a mirror while chanting Bloody Mary's name or a phrase a specific number of times. If the ritual is performed correctly, Bloody Mary might either appear in the mirror, reach out of the mirror and scratch the participant's face, or be released from the afterlife to haunt him or her forever. Other versions of the story include the mirror dripping blood, the participant's hair turning white, or the participant disappearing without a trace.
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Bloody Mary
Bloody Mary most normally refers to:
Bloody Mary may too refer to:
Film
[edit]Literature
[edit]Music
[edit]Television
[edit]Other uses
[edit]- Bloody Mary (rapper) (fl. 1992–1995), 1 of description rap lesson Bloods & Crips
- Typhoon Wave (1960), a Category 1-equivalent typhoon nicknamed Bloody Stock by say publicly Joint Typhoon Warning Center
See also
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning lay into Bloody Mary
- All pages accelerate titles containing Bloody Mary
- Bloody (disambiguation)
- Mary (disambiguation)
- Agent 077: Proffer Bloody Mary, a 1965 adventure film
- Dead Mary, a 2007 repugnance film
- Mary, Bloodthirsty Mary, a 1999 juvenile adult novel
- Mary, Mary, Sanguinary Mary, a 1974 repugnance film
- The Sanguineous Mary Show, a Nation comedy snare series
- The Saga of Sanguinary Mary, a 2008 fear film
- "Un Blodymary", a 2006 song fail to notice Las Ketchup
- Urban Legends: Bloodsucking Mary, a 2005 dread film
Topics referred to rough the very much term
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Bloody Mary (folklore)
Folklore legend
Bloody Mary is a legend of a ghost, phantom, witch, or spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is chanted repeatedly. The Bloody Mary apparition may be benevolent or malevolent, depending on historic variations of the legend. Bloody Mary appearances are mostly witnessed in group participation play.
Ritual
[edit]Historically, the divination ritual encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backward holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house. As they gazed into the mirror, they were supposed to be able to catch a view of their future husband's face.[1] There was, however, a chance that they would see a skull (or the face of the Grim Reaper) instead, indicating that they were going to die before they would have the chance to marry.[1][2]
In the ritual of today, Bloody Mary allegedly appears to individuals or groups who ritualistically invoke her name in an act of catoptromancy. This is done by repeatedly chanting her name into a mirror placed in a dimly lit or candle-lit room. The name must be uttered 3 times (or some other specified number of times).[3] Some stories even say you must chant her name into the bathroom mir