who is bloody mary? what did she do?

Question

some versions say that she was elizabeth bathory (from rumania) and other versions say that she was i- cant- remember- who from england. please tell me, and why arent mu supposed 2 say bloody mary three times in front of a mirror?

Answer 1

Bloody Mary was Mary I of England who somehow appears to have become confused with the mirror witch.

See the extract below from the "Snopes" urban legend wesite

"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.)

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.

Mary I of England (1553-1558) 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. She came by the moniker "Bloody Mary" because she had a number of Protestants put to death during her reign, as she tried to re-establish Catholicism as the religion of the land after the reigns of her father (Henry VIII, he who married six wives over the course of his lifetime and established himself as the head of a new religion rather than tolerate the Pope's saying he couldn't divorce wife #1 to marry wife #2) and her brother (Edward VI, who ruled after Henry died but passed away himself at the age of 16). Mary was a devoutly religious woman who saw what she was doing as the saving of her subjects' souls from eternal damnation, and in those times — as crazy as this sounds now — the eternal wellbeing of a soul was deemed far more important than the comparatively fleeting life of a person. That bringing the country back to Catholicism would also safeguard her throne was also a major consideration.

Mary I was the half sister of Elizabeth I (1558-1603). Both were daughters of Henry VIII, but Mary's mother was Katherine of Aragon and Elizabeth's mother was Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth I became Queen when Mary died, and she reigned for many years, coming to be called "The Virgin Queen" because she never married.

Some muddlings of this "murdering queen" variant claim that Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1567) is the "bloody Mary" of mirror summonings. Though this Mary was indeed a vain and foolish woman, history does not know her as a murderous one. (Well, okay, she did have a hand in doing away with a husband. But she didn't go after her subjects en masse, as did Mary I of England.)

So, although there was a British queen known as "Bloody Mary," no connection between her and the mirror witch has surfaced, save for their both having the same name. Likewise, the "Mary Worth" appellation of the malevolent apparition doesn't appear to be drawn from the lead character of a popular comic strip of the same name. In lore, as elsewhere, coincidences occur. (The "bathing in blood" detail is traditionally attributed to Elizabeth Bathory, but of course her name was not "Mary.")

Why would otherwise rational youngsters want to risk setting a murderous spirit on the rampage? Gail de Vos offers the following explanation:
So why do children continue to summon Bloody Mary, flirting with danger and possible tragedy? The ages between 9 and 12 are labeled "the Robinson age" by psychologists. This is the period when children need to satisfy their craving for excitement by participating in ritual games and playing in the dark. They are constantly looking for a safe way to extract pleasure and release anxiety and fears.
It's possible these "mirror witch" games have their roots in oldtime divining rituals involving unmarried girls and future husbands. There are a number of variations of these divinations, some involving chanting a rhyme in a darkened room on a special night and then quickly looking in the mirror to catch a glimpse of the bridegroom-to-be.

The concept of mirrors as portals between this world and the realm of spirits shows up in other beliefs, namely those surrounding funerals. It was common practice to cover mirrors in a house where a death had occurred until the body was taken for burial. (Back in the days before funeral homes, corpses were washed by the deceased's relatives, dressed in their funeral finery, and laid out in coffins in the front parlor. Consequently, the dead would be in the house for days.) It was believed if the dear departed caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror, his ghost would remain in the house because the mirror would trap his spirit.

Barbara "be Canadian — summon a Bloody Mary every time you're in a bar" Mikkelson

Sightings: The villain in the 1992 film Candyman is summoned by chanting his name into a mirror. In the 1998 movie Urban Legend, two co-eds try to summon an evil spirit by chanting 'Bloody Mary.' In an episode of television's The X Files ("Syzygy," original air date 26 January 1996), two teenage girls lure a rival for a boy's affections into the bathroom — and a "Bloody Mary" ritual — during a birthday party. They prevent her from leaving the bathroom, and the camera cuts to the rest of the partygoers downstairs, who hear a crash of breaking glass and a scream"

Answer 2

20 years ago, a girl named mary was hit in the face after a party by a teenage boy. He thought she was dead so he locked her in a trunk. When she woke up no one could hear her scream or bang on the trunk. That's when later she died from lack of food and water.

20 years later, her soul haunted the ancestors of the boy that hit her 20 years ago. A girl from this horror movie called "Urban Legends Bloody Mary" read about her and strange things were happening to her and her friends because at a sleepover they were saying bloody mary 3 times in a row. So, her friend that was in charge of the tanning booth had her friend fried in the tanning bed because it turned the dial on its own. And that same girl was killed by spiders and glass. Later in the movie, other people died when the soul of bloody mary came to haunt them. At the end, the girl found her body and buried it and the hauntings stopped.

**It's all untrue about saying her name in front of a mirror and all the stuff that happened in the movie was fiction so you don't have to worry about that scary stuff**

Answer 3

Bloody Mary was the nickname of Mary 1st of England, She was the daughter of Henry 8th and his 1st wife Catherine of Aragorn. She was raised as a catholic and when she came to the throme of England she tried to reintroduce the catholic faith into the country, after the protestant reformation that was led by her father. Many did not want the catholic church reintroduced and she had many bishops and clergy burnt at the stake because they refused to adopt the catholic religion hence the nickname bloody mary

Answer 4

This is super creepy i heard she kills young girls then bath in there blood to keep yourself young and she haunts in the mirrors so lock your doors and windows and smash every mirror in your house

PLEASE NO ONE TRY IT OR YOU WILL PAY>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>rrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Answer 5

each version has some credence. varies by location and culture.

as to what she did, she scared hell out of me when i was little. didn't want to be near mirrors in the dark for a short period of my impressionable childhood!

Answer 6

She crossed Chuck Norris.

Answer 7

Hello:

Try here.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloodymary.asp
http://www.castleofspirits.com/bloodymary.html