![]() ![]() You begin, in a whisper, to chant "bloody mary. You go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off (this works well in a bathroom). The story was embellished further by the teller, who claimed that after three "Hell Mary", the mirror turned red, and that after five an unclear face appeared. I was told that if you said "Hell Mary" seven times in front of a mirror in a dark room, you would see Satan's image in the mirror. ![]() If you go into the bathroom and look into the mirror with the lights off and the room completely black, and then say 'Bloody Mary' thirteen times, a woman will appear and scratch your face up/off. A familiar 'Bloody Mary' story was one about a girl who supposedly ended her incantation with a spiteful "I don't believe in Mary Worth," then tripped over the doorjamb while exiting the bathroom and broke her hip.)Įxamples: We typically performed the "ritual" in bathrooms, because the bathrooms of our suburban homes had large mirrors and were easily darkened even during the day since they had no windows. (The 'Bloody Mary' legend was common when I was a kid in the early 1970s. Mary is summoned whenever squealing girls get together for a sleepover, but boys have been known to call on her too. ![]() Belief in summoning the mirror-witch was even at that time widespread throughout the U.S. The research into Bloody Mary goes back to 1978, when folklorist Janet Langlois published her essay on the legend. ![]()
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