Bloody Mary: A Psycho Killer Drinking Game

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As Bloody Mary’s are packed to the hilt with flavours we like to use vodka as it’s a neutral spirit. The player held a candle in her hand and a mirror in the other while walking backwards up a staircase chanting “Bloody Mary”. If I had a more time, I’d puree tomatoes instead of using canned juice, but let’s assume you’re hungover and willing to roll with it. She was kept in her room like a caged pet, her parents only visiting to feed and look upon her maintained “perfection”. She was married to Ferenc Nádasdy, a Hungarian war hero who fought with distinction against the Ottomans and gifted her his family estate of Čachtice Castle for their wedding.

I first heard about the bloody marry urban legend from my older siblings who were trying to scare me when I was about 8 or 9 years old. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. In this version, she's a young bride who was murdered the day of her wedding and revived by the Devil as a vengeful ghost who delights in bloodshed.

I remember girls playing it at sleepovers, but unfortunately most of them ran out of the bathroom screaming because they were to scared to complete the ritual, so unfortunately we never got to learn if they actually summoned bloody mary. This account of the Bloody Mary story was shared by Deborah Laverty in the Indiana State University Folklore Archives in autumn of 1970. The most popular version involves standing in a dark room with a mirror, chanting Bloody Mary three or thirteen times, and waiting for her ghost to appear. Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.Elizabeth Bathory, copy of original painting in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Budapest. The throne went to her half-brother Edward VI who was born from Henry’s marriage with his third wife Jane Seymour. In the action-adventure game Dishonored (2012), the player can read a book titled, Rhyme of the Rosewater Hag, which tells the story of a vengeful mother who seeks to murder her own daughter in cold blood. She explains the simple rules of the game: you have to look into the mirror and chant the name Bloody Mary three times.

Portrait of Mary I by Master John (1544) in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. I think it is interesting how as teenagers / adolescents these sorts of urban legends seem not only believable, but worth attempting! Appearance: A young woman covered in glass shards that drench her Victorian-style white tattered dress in blood. An investigation launched by the King of Hungary (but requested by concerned, recently daughterless aristocrats) found that, for years, Bathory had been committing the kind of atrocities that make “Game of Thrones” torture scenes look like child’s play. In 1534 Henry, who had previously been a very devout Catholic, passed The Treasons Act which made questioning the King’s power over the Church of England punishable by death.Bathory began inviting the wealthy daughters of minor aristocrats to Čachtice to be instructed in the arts of court etiquette. Her father’s second marriage made Mary ‘illegitimate’ and her place in the line of succession was given to her new half-sister Elizabeth who was born from her father’s second wife. Traditionally, a Bloody Mary is mixed with vodka as its neutral flavour profile is the most versatile.