Members Editorial
Bloody Mary
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The age-old slumber party pastime: Bloody Mary.

Legend says that if you go into a dark room, stand in front of a mirror and say Bloody Mary three times (though variations of this call for the name to be said five to 100 times), a horribly disfigured woman will appear in the mirror, and if you don’t run away quickly, she will kill you. Interestingly enough, another way to call the Devil, asides from saying the Lords Prayer backwards, is to say, “Hell Mary” three times.

But where did this story originate? Who was Bloody Mary?

Urban legends vary greatly, but commonly Mary (Mary Worth, a witch) was said to have lived over 100 years ago and had been in an accident that cut her face badly. Sometimes, a pair of scissors is implicated. Unable to rest, she would attack anyone who looked into a mirror and called her name three times.

The story seems to be concentrated in English-specking cultures, and many folklorists connect her to a famous English Queen in history:

Queen Mary Tudor, who is often confused with Mary, Queen of Scots, or Queen Mary I ruled for a short five years (1553 – 1558). She was born in 1516 to King Henry VIII and Catharine of Aragon and died in 1558, successfully recognizing her sister, Elizabeth, as the new Queen: Queen Elizabeth I.

But, why her “bloody” reputation? Mary felt she had a mission to bring the Roman Catholic Church back together with England and reinstated the laws Edward VI had put in place that allowed execution for those deemed heretics. In her futile attempt, she put between 100 and 300 persons to death.
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