Sign In. Search Our Site. Hop Times. Home News ". Hop Times Entertainment Archive. JHop Times Literary Critic. Remember that annoying little story of Bloody Mary?
You know Or with claw marks all over your body? Or the possibility that you will be forever trapped behind the glass of the mirror for all eternity? What a fun and cherry tale. Well, one must wonder where the tale had come from. There are hundreds of backstories on how Bloody Mary came to be. But one of the most reasonable as reasonable as it can get when a reflection kills you is the tale of her demise.
In the s there lived a young girl named Mary. It had a second floor and more than one bathroom, and Cheryl had a bedroom all to herself. As we lined up, Cheryl gathered up her long blonde hair, pulled it through a scrunchie, and barked at the taller girls—of which I was one—to move to the back.
The fourth-grade girls posed like they were shooting a spread in Tiger Beat when they saw their reflections: chins up, heads cocked, and coy smiles. No one is allowed to leave. Got it? Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, I hate you! I waited for Bloody Mary to come, but I had no idea what shape she would take or what she would do.
Our chanting nearly rose to a scream until one of the girls ran out of the bathroom, quickly followed by all the others. I stayed behind. Bloody Mary hearkens back to mirror-divination rituals in the nineteenth century.
Early iterations suggest that the performer should walk backward up a flight of stairs before looking into the mirror. Bloody Mary might offer you a peek into your future. She might scratch your eyes out. Mary is summoned whenever squealing girls get together for a sleepover, but boys have been known to call on her too.
Examples: [Collected on the Internet, ]. You go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off this works well in a bathroom. While you are chanting you should be spinning around at a medium rate and taking a glimpse in the mirror at each pass. Near the 13th repetition of the words. A frend of mine said that her roommate tried this and ran out screaming from the bathroom. She was shaking and appeared genuinely terrified and refused to talk about the incident, but those who were around her when she came out noticed that her clenched fingers were covered in blood.
Read more scary stories and creepy urban legends. Mary is said to be a witch who was executed a hundred years ago for plying the black arts, or a woman of more modern times who died in a local car accident in which her face was hideously mutilated. That legend more properly attaches to Elizabeth Bathory, a Hungarian countess who lived from to Mary I of England was anything but a famed beauty terrified of losing her looks — she was a matronly, fortyish woman who had about as much sense of style as a dust mop.
The idea of her bathing in the blood of slaughtered virgins to preserve her loveliness is ludicrous. That bringing the country back to Catholicism would also safeguard her throne was also a major consideration.
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