25 Mary Worth/Bloody Mary (Urban Folklore And Legends)
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This article is from the Ghost Stories FAQ, by obiwan obiwan@best.com with numerous contributions by others.
25 Mary Worth/Bloody Mary (Urban Folklore And Legends)
Here is a popular legend which many remember from their childhood.
The Mary Worth (also known as Bloody Mary, Mary Margaret, etc) story
is popular at sleepovers. As the story goes, a beautiful young girl
named Mary Worth was in some sort of terrible accident (or
occasionally the wounds are inflicted purposely by a jealous party),
and her face was hideously deformed. From then on, she is shunned by
other people, and she sometimes becomes a witch.
Now for the scary part. Supposedly if you say Mary Worth's name
three (or five, or ten... it varies) times while looking into the
mirror, Mary Worth will appear and scratch your face off or kill
you. She is exacting a hideous revenge on the undeformed people
who made fun of her in life.
There is a great Clive Barker movie, -Candyman-, based on this
sort of legend. The Bloody Mary legend has merged with the local
mythology in some areas. For instance, in Kentucky and Tennessee,
she takes the form of the Bell Witch (see FAQ 3.3).
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