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Question

Does anyone know who bloody mary really was?? can you include a site from where you got the info? mucho thanks.

Answer 1

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.

Some confuse the mirror witch with Mary I of England, whom history remembers as "Bloody Mary." An expanded version of that confusion has it that this murdering British queen killed young girls so she could bathe in their blood to preserve her youthful appearance.

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.

Mary is summoned whenever squealing girls get together for a sleepover, but boys have been known to call on her too. (The 'Bloody Mary' legend was common when I was a kid in the early 1970s. 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. 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.)


The site I got this on is http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloodymary.asp

Answer 2

Bloody Mary(person)
Bloody Mary is a name applied to both Queen Mary I of England and to a figure of Western folklore. Mary I aquired the epithet during the reign of her successor Elizabeth on account of the perceived ferocity of her religious persecutions. The folkloric character is a ghost or witch said to stalk children who summon her; other very similar tales use different names. Several other fictional characters are also called Bloody Mary.

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http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloodymary.asp
Will chanting 'Bloody Mary' 13 times in front of a darkened mirror summon a vengeful ghost?
http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/marytudor.html
Annotated Bibliography of Mary I, Queen of England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail)
The epithet "Bloody Mary" is associated with a number of historical and ... The first citation of "Bloody Mary" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from ...

Answer 3

Mary I.
Also known as Mary Tudor.
Not to be confused with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(person)



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Answer 5

Bloody Mary is a name applied to both Queen Mary I of England and to a figure of Western folklore. Mary I aquired the epithet during the reign of her successor Elizabeth on account of the perceived ferocity of her religious persecutions. The folkloric character is a ghost or witch said to stalk children who summon her; other very similar tales use different names. Several other fictional characters are also called Bloody Mary

Queen Mary I of England (reigned 1553 – 1558) is called Bloody Mary because of her persecution of Protestants. The Protestant Reformation, started fitfully in England by King Henry VIII, became established policy under the brief reign of Edward VI. Mary, like her mother Catherine of Aragon, whom Henry VIII had spurned, was a devout Roman Catholic. She contracted an unpopular marriage to the equally devout Philip II of Spain. The pair, with the assistance of conservative churchmen such as Edward "Bloody" Bonner and Stephen Gardiner, sought to reimpose Roman Catholicism upon the religiously divided country.

During her brief reign of just over five years, Mary had almost three hundred people burnt at the stake for heresy. Her persecutions were notable also for the prominence of their victims; the first person to die was the Protestant John Rogers, who had completed and published Tyndale's work as Matthew's Bible. While heresy trials and executions occurred both before and after her reign, she executed more than twice as many as had been executed for this crime over the preceding century and a half.

Mary's half-sister Elizabeth succeeded her. In contrast to Mary's violent epithet, Elizabeth was commonly known as "Good Queen Bess," despite being as ruthless toward Catholics as her predecessor had been toward Protestants. On one occasion, Elizabeth had about eight hundred Catholics executed for restoring the Mass in a few towns. This has prompted some historians to suggest that a more fitting name for Elizabeth would be "Bloody Bess."[1] Indeed, Irish Catholics reversed the epithets, calling Mary "Good Queen Mary," and Elizabeth "Bloody Bess."[2]

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In folklore
In folklore and children's street culture, "Bloody Mary" is the name of a children's game in which a ghost or witch of the same name (or sometimes other names, such as Mary Worth) is said to appear in a mirror when summoned. One of the more common ways participants attempt to make her appear is to stand before a mirror in the dark and repeat her name three times, though there are many variations. Some include chanting a hundred times, chanting at midnight, spinning around, or rubbing one's eyes. Most of these are meant to disorient people. In some versions of the legend, the summoner must say "Bloody Mary, I killed your son!" (or "I killed your baby"). In these variants, Bloody Mary is often believed to be the spirit of a mother (often a widow) who murdered her children, or a woman who was murdered shortly before or after her wedding. In stories where Mary is supposed to have been wrongly accused of killing her children, the querent might say "I believe in Mary Worth." This is similar to another game involving the summoning of The Bell Witch in a mirror at midnight. Similar rituals are also used to summon spirits in the movies Beetlejuice (1988) and Candyman (1992). The game is often a test of courage, as it is said that if Bloody Mary is summoned, she would proceed to murder the summoner, often in a quite violent way, such as ripping his or her face off. Other variations say that the querent must not look directly at her, but at her image in the mirror; she will then reveal the querent's future, particularly concerning marriage and children.

Bloody Mary Worth is typically described as a child-murderess who lived in the locality where the legend has taken root years ago. There is often a specific local graveyard or tombstone that becomes attached to the legend.

On the other hand, various people have surmised that the lore about taunting Bloody Mary about her baby may relate her tenuously to folklore about Queen Mary I. [3][4]The queen's life was marked by a number of miscarriages or false pregnancies. Had Mary I successfully borne a child, this would have established a Roman Catholic succession and threatened the continuance of her religious persecutions after her death. Speculation exists that the miscarriages were deliberately induced. As a result, some retellings of the tale make Bloody Mary the queen driven to madness by the loss of her children. [5] It is likely, however, that Queen Mary I provided only her nickname to the Bloody Mary of folklore. She is also confused in some tellings of the story with Mary Queen of Scots. Bloody Mary is sometimes said to have bathed in the blood of her child victims in order to retain a youthful complexion; this would appear to confound her with Elizabeth Báthory.

The mirror ritual by which Bloody Mary is summoned may also relate to a form of divination involving mirrors and darkness that was once performed on Halloween. While as with any sort of folklore the details may vary, this particular tale encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backwards, holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house. As they gazed into the mirror, they were supposed to be able to catch a view of their future husband's face. There was, however, a chance that they would see the skull-face of the Grim Reaper instead; this meant, of course, that they were destined to die before they married.

The appearance of a ghostly figure in the mirror could be explained quite easily for the more complex rituals, for example spinning around whilst summoning Bloody Mary in front of a mirror lit by candles. The combination of dizzyness, rapid movement and flickering lighting could easily fool the eye into seeing someone, especially when the idea has already been implanted.

Lately, Bloody Mary has been in chain emails that threaten that if you do not send this email to another certain number of people at midnight you will be killed by Bloody Mary.

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Other uses
Bloody Mary is also the name of a major character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. She is a native islander, a trader and a somewhat salty character in the play, but there is no known link between the ghost folklore and the musical. Juanita Hall originated the character on the stage, and also played her in the 1958 motion picture version. A song about her makes U.S. Navy sailors sing, Bloody Mary is the girl I love, her skin is as tender as DiMaggio's glove, and that she chews betel nuts, and doesn't use Pepsodent, with the refrain Now ain't that too damn bad!

The Bloody Mary cocktail likely gets its name from the red tomato juice that is its defining ingredient; its only likely relationship with the queen, the witch, or the other characters is the name.

In the fictional universe of DC Comics, "Bloody Mary" is a member of the Female Furies, enemies of the New Gods. She is a vampire with the further power of being able to fire dangerous eye beams. In the fictional universe of Marvel Comics, "Bloody Mary" is a persona of Typhoid Mary.

In the video game Twisted Metal: Black, a playable character goes by the name "Bloody Mary." She was a girl who believed in romance since her childhood, though her need for affection was always unrequited. She aquired her nickname when she snapped at a friend's wedding; she stabbed her to death and stole her blood-soaked gown.

In an episode of the CW television series Supernatural, Bloody Mary is depicted as the spirit of Mary Worthington, a woman who was murdered and had her eyes cut out in front of her mirror. She remained to haunt the mirror and could be summoned in the usual fashion; in this version, however, she only kills those who harbor a secret in which someone died.