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Bloody Mary was a woman that lived during Colonial times, She used to look for kids at night, hack them up with an axe, then eat their bodies. She thought it would preserve her youth. They caught her and hanged her, but before she died, she managed to issued a curse that every child who stares into a darkened mirror and utters her name will release her spirit back into the world of the living.
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Origins: The research into Bloody Mary goes back to 1978, when folklorist Janet Langlois published her essay on the legend. Belief in summoning the mirror-witch was even at that time widespread throughout the U.S.
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A popular legend which many remember from their childhood: The Mary Worth (... known as Bloody Mary/Mary Margret) story is popular at sleepovers. As the story goes, a beautiful young girl named Mary Worth was in some sort of terrible accident (or occasionally the wounds are inflicted purposely by a jealous party), and her face was hideously deformed. From then on, she is shunned by other people, and she sometimes becomes a witch. Now the scary part. Supposedly if you say Mary Worth's name three (or five, or ten...it varies) times while looking in the mirror, Mary will appear and scratch your face off or kill you. She is exacting a hideous revenge on the undeformed people who made fun of her in life.
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What really happens is that as you chant, "Bloody Mary", your eyes adjust to the darkness and the image you see in the mirror is your own reflection. Any bloody apparition that emerges is actually your mind playing tricks on you. Mary will never emerge to get you.
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Some say that if you stand in front of a mirror in a dark room and repeat the words, Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary, you may see a hooded female apparition behind you in the glass. Though this has no definite connection with the Mary Tudor story, it has been around a long time and must have been a deliciously frightening game for English Protestant children in the years following Mary's death.
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The legend claims that the evil woman can be summoned by chanting "Bloody Mary" into a mirror anywhere from three to one-hundred times in a darkened room lit only by a candle. (Thirteen seems to be the most popular number of chants, appropriately so.) The bathroom is the most popular setting to test out the legend, but other dark rooms seem applicable.
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