Bloody Mary
Now there once was a girl who loved anything to do with ghosts, horror and gore. She watched every horror film she could, read any book about ghosts or monsters. She then began to get curious about the occult.
She bought several spellbooks and always the spells never worked. She became distraught that she spent so much money and gained nothing.
The very last book and the very last spell in it spoke of bring back the spirit of a dead woman who was said to have been a killer.
The girl was in a rush to see if the spell was real. She went into the bathroom as instructed as for that was where the woman made most of her kills. She turned off all the lights. She sprinkled water on the mirror, then she looked into the mirror and began to chant:
"Bloody Mary! Bloody Mary!" She felt the air get cold. She felt something tickle the back of her neck. "Bloody Mary!"
At the moment she spoke the name upon the third time a blood red blob appeared in the mirror. She stared horrified. From the blob sprout tentacles with barbs growing from them. The girl looked away to find the blob standing behind her. She screamed as she threw up her arms.
The barbs with razor edges sliced up her arms. She lay there bleeding for a long time before she dared to look, the creature was gone. After that night she never bought another spellbook or tried curses ever again.
My friend says if you ask this girl she will show you her scars from the attack.
The End.
Variations:
There are a lot of variations of this legend.
A: Bloody Mary is a face that appears in the mirror, either red or green and/or bloody. She screams and tries to pull you into the mirror.
B: Bloody Mary appears as a full figure that scrathes your back and back of neck with her nails.
C: Bloody Mary Blob, tries to swallow you whole.
D: BM appears and if you don't look away in time she throws a) a fireball b) a skull c) blood d) a knife e) a heart f) an axe g) do you really want this list of thrown things to go on? Because it is reallllly long!
E: BM appears as a woman on fire.
F: BM is a zombie like corpse.
G: BM is the soul of a woman who was wrongfully accussed of being a witch and burned at the stake.
H: BM is the soul of a real witch a) drowned b) burned at the stake c) stabbed in the heart d) beheaded e) etc. etc.
I: BM is a demon
J: BM is a killer (see above)
K: BM can be called upon by a) sprinkling water on the mirror (above) b) no water is sprinkled c) water is sprinkled on the chanter d) on the floor e) and/or lighting a candle.
L: BM is called by saying her name a) 3 times b) 13 times c) 100 times d) her name and saying "Bloody Mary I have your baby." Oops! Another variation BM is a mother who's baby was stole and killed.
M: BM can be called by looking through a window and chanting.
Does it work? I don't really know but, I will tell you about my experience with it.
From third grade till fifth grade I went to a private school. We were like any other kids, just because it was a Lutheran school didn't mean we weren't interested in messing around in the occult. The Fourth graders would go into the bathroom and preform the chant. Most of the times I was too scared and would run out of the bathroom.
The other boys would hold the door shut to scare whoever was inside. They would believe that Bloody Mary had locked the door. Some claimed to have seen a green face, a red blob and a woman with blood all over her face. The girl's almost always saw the red blob.
The teacher would go to the office next door when we where all lined up to use the bathrooms, we had two bathroom breaks during our day in which the whole class stopped working and we went over to the bathrooms located in the middle of this sort of plaza. The teachers didn't know what we were up to until one day our third period teacher caught us. She had us move away from the door. She didn't know that inside the boys in one bathroom were chanting and that the girls on the other were doing the same.
Suddenly they began to scream and bang against the doors. The doors would not open. The teacher had to unlock them. They all came out bleeding. They all claimed to have felt arms scratching at them, the boys saw a green face, the girls saw the red blob. They all say the lights would not turn back on.
Do I think it was the work of the Bloody Mary? I can't say. Let me explain.
I thought at the time it was the Bloody Mary but, now being older I have to say that there is a lot of doubt because:
A) The lights B) The scratches C) The "arms" D)The doors
The lights, the lights I can explain. You see we had a power surge that day and the fuses blew, the teacher had come outside and caught us for that reason.
B) The scratches, they all had scratches except the one at the end of line when they were trying to get out. I think now that the kids at the front were scratched from behind the others thart's why the last kid was unharmed.
C) This also explains the arms they felt touching them because the last kid said he felt nothing.
D) The doors I can not explain, this is the only thing that points to supernatural. The doors were only lockable by key. I guess one of the kids could have stole a key but, then who did they steal it? This is the weird part. The doors locking on their own.
The only other thing I can think of that maybe the whole thing was a hoax that was developed by opportunity. Someone realized that the doors had somehow locked on their own accord and decided to scare the others and that would have to be the kid in the back because they were not scartched. But, then who did the girl next door know too and the surge? I don't really care to try it to see if it's true.
I think I'm done!-JLB! -JLB! -JLB!
