Also known as:
"Bloody Mary", "Hell Mary", "I Believe In Mary
Worth", "The Face In The Mirror",
"The Ghost In The Mirror", "Mary Moore", "Mary
Jane", "Mary Lou", "Mary Whales",
"Mary Worthington", "Mary Johnson", "Sally",
"Kathy", "Agnes", "Black Agnes", "Aggie", "Black
Aggie", "Svarte Madame"
A typical rendition of the Mary Worth
scare-story will usually begin with the
details of a woman named Mary who
was horribly disfigured and / or killed
in an accident. Her tormented spirit
can be summoned, the story
claims, by standing in front of
a mirror and chanting her
name a prescribed number of
times (sometimes 3, 5, 9, 13
times and so on). When you
have spoken her name for the
3rd (or 5th or 9th...) time you
will either see her terrible face
in the mirror (and die of fright
etc) or she will appear from
the mirror and claw your face.
About a year ago, I was at
a friend's house. We were
bored, so she suggested
that we try the ritual for
"Bloody Mary." We went
into the bathroom, put
candles on each side of
the mirror. Then we got
red lipstick and wrote
"Bloody Mary" across the
mirror. We chanted "Bloody
Mary 18 times. We then
heard a sort of a cackle.
We looked into the mirror
and what we then saw was
completely horrifying. We
saw the disfigured face of
a woman right in the
center of the mirror. A
pool of blood was under
the horrifying face.Then
my friend, being the idiot
that she is, screamed out
"I killed your baby!" We
heard a blood-curling
scream and we got the most
painful scratches on our
faces. I only got one, but
for sying what she said,
my friend got several. I
ask that if you do put
this on your website,
please don't print my
name.