![]() ![]() Perhaps the true monsters are simply reflections of ourselves. Still others say she’s Mary Tudor, the Queen of England who reigned from 1553 to 1558 and became known as “Bloody Mary” for the executions she carried out against Protestants in an effort to restore Catholicism to England.įor what it’s worth, some have suggested a scientific explanation for the spirit’s appearance: It’s said that staring into a mirror in low-light conditions for lengthy amounts of time causes our perception of what we’re seeing to distort and become monstrous. Some say she’s the vengeful spirit of a mother who lost her child. To others, she’s Mary Whales, who might be the aforementioned car crash victim or a vanishing hitchhiker-type spirit. To some, she’s Mary Worth, who may have been either a Puritan woman who was tried and executed for witchcraft, or a woman who was killed in a car crash more recently. ![]() We do know that the legend was firmly established in the United States by the 1970s: Folklorist Janet Langlois’s essay, “Mary Whales, I Believe in You,” published in Indiana Folklore: A Reader in 1976, features several versions of the legend which Langlois had gathered throughout the early ’70s.Īnd as for who Bloody Mary is? Well, that changes depending on who you’re talking to. If the skull appeared, it meant that you were destined to die before you got the chance to marry anyone.īloody Mary itself, meanwhile, appears to have come along somewhat later, although exactly when is a little hazy. It was said that if you walked backward up a staircase in a darkened house at night, passing a mirror as you went, you would see reflected in the mirror one of two things: the face of the person you were destined to marry, or a skull. The roots of the mirror game known as Bloody Mary stretch back to a folk tradition practiced by young people in the 19th century. ![]()
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