I can remember as a kid standing in the girls washroom at school with a bunch of friends and the lights out and each of us daring the other to stand infront of the mirror and say "Blue Baby" X number of times but all of us were too scared to say the name the required about of times.
What was suppose to happen and what is the story behind the Blue Baby?
2006-10-25 17:42:21 · 8 answers · asked by Ersabette 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I believe you are referring to Bloody Mary.
You'd say it 13 times. WIth the lights out mayb with your back to the mirror or eyes closed or while turning around. When you finished the scary ghost of Bloody Mary would appear in the mirror and get you.
The story...leads to many historical posibilities but mostly likely it could be refered to Englands Queen Mary know as Bloody Mary for her execution of many a subject.
See the source below for more info.
2006-10-25 18:16:45 · answer #1 · answered by Skadiego 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I do not know the context in which you heard the term Blue Baby. But actually it is a heart disease in infants and childredn. Read the excerpt from Wikipeida -
Blue baby syndrome (or simply, blue baby) is a layman's term used to describe newborns with cyanotic conditions, such as
Cyanotic heart defects
Tetralogy of Fallot
Dextro-Transposition of the great arteries
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
Methemoglobinemia
Respiratory distress syndrome
On November 29, 1944, the Johns Hopkins Hospital was the first to successfully perform an operation to relieve this syndrome. The syndrome was brought to the attention of surgeon Alfred Blalock and his laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas in 1943 by pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, who had treated hundreds of children with Tetralogy of Fallot in her work at Hopkins' Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children. The two men adapted a surgical procedure they had earlier developed for another purpose, involving the anastomosis, or joining, of the subclavian artery to the pulmonary artery, which allowed the blood another chance to become oxygenated. The procedure became known as the Blalock-Taussig shunt, although in recent years the contribution of Vivien Thomas, both experimentally and clinically, has been widely acknowledged.
2006-10-26 07:15:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Blue Baby I was taught in school was a baby born with abnormalities due to the parents blood types clashing. That is why we used to have blood tests before every marriage, but they did away with that here.. which doesn't make any sense... what you are thinking of, (and I think the blue man group is funny!) is candyman, bloody mary, and if you watch south park, Biggie Smalls... lol Bloody mary is supposed to scratch out your eyes since she was caught killing the children as a camp counsler, so now she takes the eyes of people who summon her for being killed for it, and i never saw the movie candyman. You can do a search for urban legends and there is a whole bunch of this stuff.
2006-10-26 12:03:34 · answer #3 · answered by innocentkitty214 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Never heard of that one before other then the Medical term Blue baby syndrome
2006-10-26 01:00:22 · answer #4 · answered by Someone 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The more common form of this folk-lore is "Mary Worth"-although the movie was called "Candy-Man".In all forms it's just a mass self hypnotic suggestion thing based on the weakest,or easiest-to-scare,individual convincing themselves they saw "something" in the mirror and screaming,which of course freaks everybody else out,too.
2006-10-26 01:13:29 · answer #5 · answered by foxspearman 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
say it 10 times and blue man group will come out of the mirror and do weired stuffs....
2006-10-26 00:59:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
the last time i heard bout it was when i was in my highschool days, it was mentioned during our science (or biology class)when a child is born with certain health abnormalities (the heart, i guess)
2006-10-26 06:27:15 · answer #7 · answered by ♥vanillakiss 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, but I was a lifeguard once, until some blue kid got me fired. ;-)
2006-10-26 01:10:34 · answer #8 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋