That the figure goes by multiple names—such as Mary Worth, Mary Worthington, Mary Lou, etc.—suggests against a real person as the inspiration. Psychoanalysts have proposed that the game has to do with young girls and the onset of menstruation. Others have noted earlier analogues of the game, including a Robert Burns poem where he explained that if you “[t]ake a candle, and go alone to a looking glass; eat an apple before it; and some traditions say, you should comb your hair all the time,” you'll see over your shoulder the face of the person you'll marry (and some psychoanalysts have even proposed an importance of the homophone Mary/marry). But as far as we know, no one has ever actually appeared in a mirror to confirm what—or who—Bloody Mary is about. R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Mirroring “Bloody Mary” is the Japanese legend of Hanako-san (or “Hanako of the Toilet). It involves a young girl, killed either during WWII air raids or by a parent or stranger, who appears in the mirrors of school bathrooms when you shout her name. But the invocation of Bloody Mary—a blood-soaked spectre just as likely to be benign and scare you as to end up strangling you—is relatively recent. Who exactly do scare-seekers in the West expect to come face-to-face with when they summon Bloody Mary? Here are three historical contenders. “Bloody” Mary I. History.com Bloody Mary 1) Queen Mary I (1516 – 1558)

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Bloody Mary is a legend of a ghost, phantom, or spirit conjured to reveal the future. She is said to appear in a mirror when her name is chanted repeatedly. The Bloody Mary apparition may be benign or malevolent, depending on historic variations of the legend. Bloody Mary appearances are mostly witnessed in group participation play. In a chapter, the protagonist's parents go to work and then he stumbles upon the garage that has been damaged. So basically, his parents went to work without looking at the garage. Na. doesn't happen. However, Nádasdy’s death in 1604 gave way to six years of unabated killings. After exhausting the nearby village’s supply of adolescent peasant girls, she started searching further afield. Bathory began inviting the wealthy daughters of minor aristocrats to Čachtice to be instructed in the arts of court etiquette. Rather than receive a courtly education, however, they were instead ritually slaughtered.

Laverty, Deborah (1970). "Bloody Mary, Marshall County, Iowa". Indiana Memory. Archived from the original on 2022-01-26. As the blood queen of the English Reformation, Mary had at least 280 people burned at the stake for resisting her re-Catholicisation of England. These purges, known to history as the “Marian Persecutions”, were aimed at those who remained loyal to Protestantism—a religious sect embraced by Mary’s father, Henry VIII, and his son and brief successor, Edward VI, but rejected by the Catholically-raised Mary. And not only did Mary execute those who refused to renounce their Protestantism, she also burned people who did. Her most famous victim was Thomas Cramner, the Archbishop of Canterbury. After his trial, Cramner renounced his faith and re-embraced Catholicism. However, Mary had a score to settle. As an advisor to her father, Cramner had been responsible for annulling Henry’s marriage to Mary’s mother, Catherine, so Henry could marry Anne Boleyn. He’d also been a passionate promoter of Protestantism under Mary’s predecessor, Edward VI. So Mary ignored the law of repentance—which should have absolved him—and condemned Cramner to the flames anyway in 1556. This illustration, taken from John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, shows the execution of John Rogers: the first Protestant martyr of Mary I’s reign. History AnswersAs the daughter of King James V of Scotland and his French queen, Mary of Guis, Mary Queen of Scots had both a legitimate claim to the Scottish and English thrones. She also enjoyed the support of Scotland’s long-time allies against the English: the French. The only problem was that the queen to the south happened to be the formidable Elizabeth I. Many refused to recognize Elizabeth’s legitimacy as queen because they didn’t think Henry VIII’s marriage to her mother, Anne Boleyn, had been valid.

A fun, brisk read. I'd recently started 'curating' (sigh) my Want to Read list, which used to be the random books I came across so I wouldn't forget them ... but wouldn't I rather read more from my favourite authors? Hence this one. It turns out I hadn't read it because he'd died before completing it (and others), according to the publisher, but the able hand that finished it (or revised it or edited it) was undetectable to me. It very much felt like a Bellairs book. An Optical Illusion that Explains the Origins of Imaginary Monsters". December 2013 . Retrieved 2020-12-02. This one was really a letdown. It had so much going for it, and there was just no payoff, what so ever. Or rather, the "payoff" was complete garbage. I was super disappointed with the turn the story took, especially considering how well done the first half of the book was. Das Cover ist typisch für die „Gänsehaut“-Reihe in einem lilanen Grundton gehalten. Darauf zu sehen ist oben der Titel und darunter ein alter Spiegel aus dessen Glas eine Monster- beziehungsweise Geisterhand herausragt. Das wirkt schon ein bisschen gruselig und ich denke, dass es durchaus neugierig auf die Geschichte macht. Außerdem ist das Cover sehr aussagekräftig bezüglich des Inhalts und somit in meinen Augen wirklich gelungen. Jason ist zwölf und lebt mit seiner Familie in einem kleinen Häuschen. Seine ältere Schwester Claudia hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht ihm immer gruselige Streiche zu spielen oder ihn wegen seinem noch immer kindlich eingerichteten Zimmer aufzuziehen. Da sein Vater seit einem Jahr arbeitslos ist, beschließen seine Eltern ihm trotz Geldmangel das Zimmer ein bisschen aufzupeppen und kaufen ihm eine alte Kommode, die sie aufbereiten wollen und einen alten Spiegel von dem Jason absolut begeistert ist. Als er eines Abends eine geschriebene Warnung auf dem Boden findet, dass der Spiegel Unheil bringt, ist sich Jason sicher, dass Claudia ihm wieder einen Streich gespielt hat. Doch plötzlich glaubt er in dem Spiegel eine Bewegung gesehen zu haben und als sein Hund sich verändert und sein bester Freund Fred plötzlich verschwindet, ist sich Jason sicher, dass der Spiegel etwas damit zu tun hat. Und damit behält er auch Recht, denn bald zeigt sich der Geist, der in dem Spiegel wohnt. Doch wie kann er seinen Freund retten?

Bloody Mary 1) Queen Mary I (1516 – 1558)

Staring into a mirror in a dimly lit room for a prolonged period can cause one to hallucinate. [6] Facial features may appear to "melt", distort, disappear, and rotate, while other hallucinatory elements, such as animal or strange faces, may appear. Giovanni Caputo of the University of Urbino writes that this phenomenon, which he calls the "strange-face illusion", is believed to be a consequence of a "dissociative identity effect", which causes the brain's facial-recognition system to misfire in a currently unidentified way. [6] Other possible explanations for the phenomenon include illusions attributed, at least partially, to the perceptual effects of Troxler's fading [7] [6] and possibly apophenia, [8] or even self-hypnosis. [ citation needed] Identification [ edit ] Interestingly, the same effect “can also be obtained during eye-to-eye gazing between two individuals,” Caputo tells Mental Floss. In fact, this “inter-subjective gazing” produced an even higher number of “strange faces” seen by test subjects, according to another experiment conducted by Caputo in 2013. The story is about a kid who lives on the line of poverty where he has to endure his bratty sister and making due with his status. He one day receives a new dresser and mirror from his parents to replace some furniture he has had since he was a baby and this excites him very much. But things turn south once he and his best friend discover an ominous note on the floor next to the new mirror in his bedroom.

And then we get the twist ending, which is probably the stupidest and most random twist ending out of ANY S2K book.

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There is a family and the grandfather is a witch and the granddaughter is a witch and she is the one who trained Mrs. Zimmerman; how're them apples. There is an evil socerer in the area who is trying to destroy the family and Rose Rita must face it all. Seine Schwester Claudia hingegen finde ich als Charakter oder besser gesagt vom Charakter her wirklich grauenhaft. Durch die ständigen Streiche und ihre überhebliche Art nervt sie einfach nur und das macht sie nicht sonderlich sympathisch. Eigentlich ein bisschen schade. Außerdem wäre ich der Meinung gewesen, dass man sie vielleicht hätte noch ein bisschen mehr in die Handlung einbauen können, besonders, als Jason wegen dem Geist so richtig in der Klemme sitzt.