Ghost Story of Bloody Mary :: Ghost Stories Urban Legends

damn bloody shameI remember enacting an urban religious rite with my friends back in middle school. Giggling and squealing, running in and out of the bathroom, not really believing but still terrified by the possibilities. It was slight a story with a moral than it was just a sleepover prank. uncalled-for to say I wasnt surprised that when I asked a roomie to relate an urban legend to me over lunch one daytime that she chose that of Bloody bloody shame.The storyteller is a 20 year old fair sex studying psychology at the University. She transferred to school after one semester at another college. She is of French descent and her parents speak French at home. She has right to moderate political beliefs and is Lutheran, although does not regularly attend religious operate while she is at school. She is in a long distance consanguinity with her boyfriend of two years who is in the Navy and stationed at Virginia Beach. When prompted for a story she was initially hesitant but fina lly responded with, Bloody Mary, I guess.Youre supposed to like, go into the bathroom in summit of the mirror and turn around saying Bloody Mary triple times. Then shes supposed to come.I asked what happened after that and she replied with a taste perception of food, She kills you. This story was told it seemed, with the surmisal that I should know the story. As if it was more a matter of public knowledge than a personal story. This was an accurate assumption on her part as not only had I comprehend the story many times before, but I also base frequent references to it online. The narrative from my storyteller differed slightly from others I read online, be it the number of times Bloody Mary was chanted or supplementary actions that were or were not included, each story had slightly different elements.Bloody Mary is often confused with Mary I, the queen of England from 1553-1558 who restored Roman universality to England, which resulted in many Protestants being burnt at the stake as heretics. While she was referred to as Bloody Mary, in very hardly a(prenominal) variations is it the queen who appears in the bathroom mirror (Mikkelson & Mikkelson). Some stories identify Mary as a woman specific to the storytellers witness community, such as a girl killed in a topical anesthetic car crash or other such tragic accident. In other cases Mary is just a woman of myth an penalise witch, a woman murdered on her wedding night, a contract who killed her children, some tragic or horrific figure that appears in a mirror upon being summoned (Bloody Mary person).