Me and my friends were bored enough to try and summon Bloody Mary. Though I wanted to know what others think about the legend of the hedless woman. So um

1. Do you believe in her?

2. If so why?

3. What have you heard about her?

4. Have you ever tried sommuning her and has it ever worked?

5. If so what happened?

Heh heh just five simple questions... ^_^;

Yes I have heard of her. and its has got to be the dumbest thing ever. Its a game children play during sleep overs to freak them out. Might as well go say candyman in the mirror will you are at it. Or even beetlejuice.

I thought that Bloody Mary was supposed to be Mary queen of Scots. Wasn't that the start of it?

Okay, I looked it up. Originally it was the Queen who got yhe name for burning over 300 people at the stake during her reign. The new one may also be her, who knows. She is supposed to chant bloody Maru 13 times in front of the mirror and she appearsa nd claws your face off. If it were real we would hear of a lot of young girls with clawed faces because they can't help but dare.

lol thanks for the tip of the Queen thing. Google time!

i always thought it was if you said her name 3 or 5 times in front of the mirror your eyes, nose and mouth would begin dripping blood and it would never stop.

...It beggars belief anyone above the age of 8 ever thought this was true.

meh sometimes I want to see if there's truth in the impossible lol. But it always fails most the time =/

I've never heard of the Bloody Mary ritual, but I heard of other, similar practices as a kid. Sit in front of a mirror at night, with the full moon reflected over your right shoulder, and you'll see your future husband, or in other versions the devil, over your right shoulder. Or look at your own reflection through a candleflame, and you'll see yourself as you'll be as an adult.

The mirror is typical for most. But mirrors were always seen as magical, and slightly dangerous, they're still considered gateways to the other side. Feng Shui advices against mirrors in the bedroom, as they'll attract negative energy that'll influate your sleep. Warding rituals too suggest you seal not only doors and windows, but also mirrors, to prevent malicious spirits from coming through.

Keeping this in mind, there might be some truth to the myth from way back. If mirrors are gateways to the other side, standing in front of onme and calling for specific spirits, through chanting, might actually work. You may not gfet the spirit you're asking for, but with the gate open chances are something will come poking through. Like an over-simplified summoning ritual. Sometimes it doesn't have to be that complicated.

Bloody Mary isn't real.

But sometimes things looking back through the mirror can't help but mess with kids playing this stupid game.

lol @ Rhuen

I got sliding closet doors and the front of them is mirrors lol. That's a big gateway... o.o in my room.... *twilight zone music*

Hey all, just joined the forum and this discussion caught my eye. :)

Bloody Mary, aka Mary 1, aka Mary Tudor, was an English queen from 1553-1558. During her reign she burned over 500 protestants at the stake in an effort bring the Catholic Church back to England. Her grandmother was Isabella of Castille (the instigator of the Spanish Inquisition, if that gives you any indication). She was not a nice lady...

'Bloody Mary' is also an archaic term for menstration, especially the first one. It was thought that a girl's innocence was lost after that happened, and the apparently horrors that followed from that loss are multiplied in the form of an evil spirit trying to kill you. Another theory goes that girls would look into a clear reflection, such as a mirror or pool of water, and call 'Bloody Mary', asking for her menstration to come along, for she would be considered a grown woman then. It was thought that if a girl asked this prematurely, she would be attacked by an older woman through the reflection. It was probably used to deter girls from losing their 'innocence' too quickly.

Hope this doesn't sound like nonsense. :) :geek:

Bearing in mind i was 12 at the time

1. Do you believe in her?
Yes

2. If so why?
only through what happened

3. What have you heard about her?
Shes meant to be either Mary from the Birth of Jesus seeking revenge for the murder of her son to anyone whos had a sin (basically everyone.)

4. Have you ever tried sommuning her and has it ever worked?
yes at primary school when was young n dumb

5. If so what happened?
Blood started tricking down the walls, in small amounts, also caused people to faint and strange occurances in the school to occur that couldnt be put down to coincidence.

People I have asked and succeeded in seeing her have one main detail in common: the walls trickle blood. wierdness..

I've seen her but I don't want to bring back the evil spirit by speaking of her...

I have heard of people accidently calling up the Blanket witch by trying to summon Bloody Mary "your post of coming back by speaking of her reminded me of this creature" She attacks you as you sleep scareing you, and when you hide from her under the blankets she holds the blankets down tight and sufficates you.

Yes. She was a real person after all. I don't disbelieve in real people.



As stated above, she was a real person. Two seconds with google could have told you that.



She was a queen, she was extremely vicious, and she died. Her biography has been worked up in this section already to a sufficient degree.



No, I've not tried summoning her because frankly magic doesn't exist.



Since #5 doesn't apply, I'll give another bit of information on this rumor.

Mirrors were excruciatingly expensive in the past. They were so expensive most people never eve saw one in their life. In order to protect them, many silly wivestales were told to impressionable and stupid young children in order to keep them from being around the mirrors. The summoning of Bloody Mary is an example of these wivestales. If the children were hanging around in front of the mirror long enough to fuck around doing these silly chantings, they were hanging around long enough to accidentally break the mirror. The stories that you will die, bleed, or otherwise be harmed if you do these were made up purely to deter people from being in front of a mirror for too long lest they break them.

The legends that say if you break a mirror you go to hell, have bad luck, or become injured are another example of attempts to keep mirrors safe. It's not so much that mirrors are great, it's that they were expensive. The expense has gone; the legends are passed along unwitting of their real meaning.

The Bloody Mary thing would be a very foolish way to STOP kids from being around a mirror. Curiosity is just too damn strong in children, if anything its a temptation to sneak away a mirror just to play with it.

Maybe it was the reason, but I would imagine the plan back fired.

Curiosity is gonna kill this cat someday..
Yep..It shall be, the death of me... x_x




......lmao

Yeah, my friend told me her bloody mary experience
She turned off all the lights and positioned herself close to the mirror and chanted "Bloody Mary" methodically, three times. She stared and stared, already nervous and still chanting, and then It appeared and she ran screaming from the room. But as she looked back on this fond childhood memory, she remembers that she was breathing rather hard on the glass...and causing steam...and...yeah.

Bloody Mary is a drink, not a ghost =_=.

Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary......

okay it doesn't work. it never did and it's just stupid....even if she did show up i would have to kick her ass cause she sounds weird according to what you all wrote

From what I've looked into, Bloody Mary started off with some basis in truth (as pertaining to Queen Mary I), but became more of an urban legend or myth as time went on. I have heard story upon story of how to summon "Bloody Mary," what happens when you do, etc. It's all a load of fairy tale and overtold whims passed on and twisted from it's original historical context if you ask me. Just like the alligators in the sewers of New York City. Not possible at all. I can see what Rhuen had said, how an attempt of summoning Bloody Mary could turn into calling upon another actual being. For the few of those cases where "blood dripped from the walls" and "ghastly visions appeared in the other side of the mirror", all I can ponder is how did the blood get in the walls? And while we're on the matter, how did they get it out of the furnature, floors, etc.? Blood stains worse than red wine and chocolate sauce mixed together...

I don't believe in it, but I don't like mirrors because they can be gateways. That's always kind of creeped me out.

SweetNightmares

i have answered ur questions in the order u asked them
1. yes

2. cuz she haunted my old school

3. she was a young girl when she got murdered and is now looking for revenge.

4. yea once. and it did work

5. there was a strange red light in the mirror that kept geting bigger and bigger.

The way I did it back in the day was to go in a dark room in front of a mirror, close my eyes, chant her name, then in the mirror my face was supposed to turn all bloody and mutilated...never worked for me. It worked for some of my friends though. Placebo horror story shit, probably

yes I believe in her
beacuse I have seen her
I have read a few of the legends but the one I found to be true is a girl in a bloodstained dress that stares at you
yes, I summoned her and will never again
your reflection starts to fade out and is replaced by a girl standing where you where, she varies with her emotions

Just to add to this: (These are from my notes, I took a class on Elizabeth I three semesters ago.)
Mary I (1516–1558) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 6 July 1553 or 19 July 1553 until her death. Mary, was the fourth from the Tudor line. She is especially (in)famous for her attempts to change England from Protestant to Catholic by executing over 300 Protestants. She is rumoured to have bathed in the blood of the executed because she believed it would give her longer life; she is sometimes called Bloody Mary. Many of her religious ideals were revoked by Elizabeth I.
The myth that if you stood in front of a mirror and chanted her name three times was started at this time, in response to her executions (and the whole bathing in blood "thing").
Mary I is sometimes confused with Mary, Queen of Scots.

Yep, She's real.
Except she is a demond posing as a historical figure to mess with our heads.
Stupid Girl!
She scratched my friend at a slumber party.

Suuurreeee, "she" did. :icon11: