My 92nd Post: Bloody Mary

"Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary"

Dare to chant this while holding a mirror in one hand and no light except a flickering candle? No, I don't think you are brave enough to do that and greet your worst nightmare....she would love to hear you scream until you lose your voice and would steal the beauty from your face so that you would never dare to call upon her again.....
When I was young, Bloody Mary was a hot topic...well not exactly because of her legend or anything....one of my cousins was damn scared of her and I guess even now when he is around 24, Bloody Mary gives him goosebumps.....I did ask my dad once about her and he told me one of the tales that she was a beautiful girl whose beauty was envied by many and was forced to accept that she was hideous....then she hid in her room for ever and when she died, she haunted all the pretty ladies....

As a child, I wanted to meet her and tell her that she was mistaken about being hideous and was beautiful....I recall chanting this though I didn't believe in it but my cousin, he was elder than me, got scared so I thought he really saw her...so I tried calling her but she never showed up and I  wasn't able to tell her about her beauty and she kept living her ghostly life in misery....that is what I thought....
There are many tales about her and her horrors but none has any clear authenticity....my cousin was just scared without even getting a glimpse of her....his mind made him think that her name was horrid enough to haunt his nights....so there is no one who really can claim of viewing her and no one of this century can really do that....this is just a legend created after the name Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry the VIII.....she was referred as Bloody Mary because like her father, she was merciless....she was the Queen of England which was made possible by beheading her cousin who was the first proclaimed Queen...who so ever went against her, she just had them killed even people didn't had the right to follow the religion they wanted....the ones who chose a religion against hers, was burnt alive....
Mary was well known for her brutal acts....it is said that she wanted a heir for her throne and so after long, she started having signs of pregnancy and everyone was happy...but something odd happened....she didn't get her child with passing time.....there wasn't any delivery and after months, her stomach started shrinking and pregnancy ended but she neither had miscarriage or a child....it is believed that it was a ghost child...after a while she again had a false pregnancy and died soon after that....these facts grew up into bigger stories and soon Mary I became known to the world as Bloody Mary....
If you still want to try calling upon her and chanting Bloody Mary doesn't works, try chanting "I stole your child Bloody Mary", she would definitely come at that because no mother can bare anyone teasing her upon the death of her mysterious child.....