Bloody Mary - Kirri - Fourth Hour

There are many stories to the legend of Bloody Mary. It became a famous Childs game, where you go into a bathroom with a big mirror, turn off the lights, light one candle, and chant “Bloody Mary” three to one hundred times. It is also said that you should spin around 3 times chanting the same thing if nothing happened. From what I have heard of stories a young girl with long hair and blood stains all over her body appears in the mirror and cuts your face or kills you. When I first heard of these stories I was terrified of the legends, now I am not so sure that the legends are true.

While I was looking up the legend of Bloody Mary, two stories seemed to be the most popular. One of the stories is where she was Mary Tudor, Queen of England. She became Queen Mary of England after her brother Edward VI died. She was hated all over for changing the religion in England from Protestant to Roman Catholic. She mass-murdered over 100 Protestant leaders, earning her name as "Bloody Mary". The second story that I read seemed to be the one that was told the most being past down from grandparents. The story is about a young girl named Mary who was a witch. She loved to cast spells and bewitch people. Soon a strange thing started to happen, the girls from the village started to disappear. The only thing they could come up with was that Mary was stealing the girls or maybe even killing them. When they got to her house there was no evidence of her stealing the girls except for the fact she was getting younger and more attractive. One day the daughter of the Miller family was walking out of the house at night, when her parents tried to stop her it seemed like she wasn’t listening.

She kept walking to the forest where they saw a bright light. The family woke up the towns people and they fallowed the young girl to the forest. When they got to where the light was they saw Mary looking younger and they girl walked over to her. The family knew then that Mary was the one killing the girls. When they killed Mary by burning her on the stake she created a curse. If you said her name three times to a reflection she will come out and made you suffer just like she suffered at the steak. Later after that they found the bodies of the missing girls in Mary’s yard. Drained of there blood it seemed that Mary put there blood on her body, and that’s when they gave her the name of “Bloody Mary.”

There very interesting stories, the first story where she was the Queen of England, where her reign of power took the best of her and she killed for her religion, but it said nothing about her coming out in the dark to kill someone. The second one seemed more like a fairy tale story to me, it did state that she would kill you if you said her name three times to your reflection. Truthfully it’s hard for me to believe that something will come out of a mirror to kill you. I am starting to think that it may just be all in your head and you are scared at the beginning, and the darkness and fear could tricks you into seeing something that’s not there, but then again I will probably never do it.

Resources

Picture figure 1 “Most people heard of Bloody Mary,” April 6, 2009, http://www.rgoldberg.info/images/bloody_mary_1_smw0.jpg
Story 1 “Queen ‘Bloody’ Mary,” April 6, 2009 http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/queen-mary.html
Story 2 “Bloody Mary,” April 6, 2009 http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/pa3.html
“The Legend of ‘Bloody Mary’,” April 8, 2009 http://www.castleofspirits.com/bloodymary.html