Will you meet me in the bathroom?

Romantic candlelight, A sweet chant, could it be romance is in the air?

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Good evening listeners. How are y'all doing tonight? Me, I'm doing pretty good. Uh, it's been quite the week. I've got changes coming up, but you know, they're good changes. Still sets my anxiety off a little bit. I'm sure some of y'all know about that. If you don't, I'm very happy to hear that. Uh so without further ado, shh, it's gonna be okay. Bloody Mary. The legend and ritual. The legend of Bloody Mary. Uh she could be a ghost, a phantom, a witch, or a conjured spirit to reveal the future. According to the legend, she is said to appear in a mirror when her name is chanted repeatedly. The Bloody Mary apparition may be benevolent or malevolent, depending on variations of the story throughout history. Most Bloody Mary appearances are reported during group participation rituals. Hence the slumber potty. Yes, let's have fun. The way you perform this Bloody Mary ritual is you need to decide who's gonna go first. If no one volunteers, you use a game. Uh flipping a coin, playing rock, paper, scissors, the kid over in the corner crying that they don't want to do it. It's scary. They should go first, definitely. Um, but it's all up to you. It's in good fun. Pick the one that should go first. Once you've done that, the person needs to go into the bathroom and turn off all the lights. Close the door so the room is completely dark. Make sure you are alone before you begin the ritual. There's nothing worse than starting a ritual, and someone's like, hey, I'm peeing in here. So let's make sure we're alone. Then you're gonna take a candle, and I'm telling you to be very careful because you have to light the candle. So we don't want any fires started, we don't want anything bad happening. So you take the candle, you put it on the sink in front of the mirror, and you light it. Okay, if a bathroom is not available, you can try summoning Bloody Mary in any other dark room with a mirror. That's fine too. Once you're all set, you've got the room completely dark, you've got your candle lit, and you're ready, you're gonna look into the mirror and say, Bloody Mary, bloody Mary, bloody Mary three times. Keep your eyes open while chanting. Speak slowly and clearly so Bloody Mary can hear you, and then you wait for her to appear. While her true appearance is uncertain, some believe that Bloody Mary takes the form of a terrifying elderly witch. Mom? Just kidding, I'm just kidding. Okay. If she does not appear, you need to spin around three times to encourage her to show up. After that, you stop and look in the mirror to see if she's appeared. If there's still no sign of her, try spinning in the opposite direction. That will also help cure your dizziness. The next thing you're gonna do is blow out the candle and leave the bathroom. Share your experience with your friends and send to the next person and send the next person in to call Bloody Mary. Uh, as a fun slumber party game, great. It it's it is fun, it's creepy, it's scary. Um, but it makes you wonder how this got told the way it does. Like, how did this get started? What are the origins of this? You know, someone didn't just wake up one day and go, hey, slumber party, let's go look in the mirror and say these words and specific name, and so I wanted to know what the origins of Bloody Mary were. And you'd be surprised. Some speculate that the real Bloody Mary could have been Queen Mary I. She is known for Marian persecutions, which were pretty bloody from what I understand, the phantom pregnancies she would have, and dying at age 42. She reportedly just longed for someone to love her. Uh, the legend could also be connected to Elizabeth Bathory. She was a countess from 1560, obsessed with youth and beauty. She allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, and after her crimes were discovered, she was walled up alive. And here's a little interesting tidbit if you didn't catch it. Her name's not Mary. It's Elizabeth. So I don't even know how she got like associated with this. Another variation involves Mary Worth, whose identity is unclear. Uh, she's possibly fictional, but the legend says she kidnapped children and believed that their blood had special powers. She purportedly burned at the stake, cursing her executioners, and the mirror, which became a portal when her name was spoken. There are tragic tales there's also a tragic tale that involves a woman who dies in a car crash. In another tale, she's kidnapped and dies alone. The ritual may have originated from older traditions used to see one's future husband, which was what I was telling you about lighting a candle, walking backwards to a mirror, and hoping to see your future spouse. Sometimes, however, participants would see a skull or the grim reaper symbolizing a death before marriage. This could be an evolution of an ancient ritual reflecting human psychology and our connection to mirrors and darkness. There was a professor who actually conducted an experiment with 50 participants in a dimly lit room, instructing them to stare into the mirror for 10 minutes. The effects varied. 66% saw deformities in their own face. 18% saw their parents' faces, alive or deceased. 18% saw animal faces, and 48% saw fantastical or monstrous faces, possibly due to the dissociative identity effect. Now, if you do the math, you'll see that the math is not mathing, and the the that equals more than 100% and more than the 50 participants, or but from what I understand, which I say that a lot, 50 the of the 50 participants, a lot of them saw multiple things. Uh the effects, multiple effects. So now I did wonder if anybody actually had personal accounts that they documented. They did. One, and it's from Reddit. Take it however you want. I did. Some of them sound creepy as all get out, and I would not have wanted to be there. But some of them were like, okay. One Reddit user described locking themselves in the bathroom. Why are you gonna lock yourself in the bathroom? Chanting Bloody Mary. Like if she shows up, how are you getting out fast? Like you're locked in. Is your brain even gonna work fast enough to unlock the door? Anyway, locked themselves in the bathroom chanting bloody Mary and hearing a woman sobbing behind the shower curtain. When they checked, okay, no one was there, but the stout sound stopped as they approached it. Another account from a third grade bathroom involved chanting in front of the mirrors when a distant stall door began banging and moving unnaturally. There was a story from the lineup which recounts a girl seeing a black and white woman with an open mouth and bloody hands in the mirror, followed by a sudden chill and the feeling of hands grabbing her. Yet another one describes an old woman with cuts on her face and chains and peering in the mirror, the shower curtain catching fire, later explained as a candle accident. Some reports mention sensations like a cool breeze, flickering lights, or a heavy oppressive feeling during the ritual, even without seeing an apparition. That was from Good Novel. When I did it, and I did it tonight, I didn't do it exactly the way um it told you to do it, where you set the candle down and all that. I I spun around in the circle while saying the name. When I got to the mirror, I paused each time just to make sure. I videoed it. I'm hoping to be able to upload the video. Um, but I didn't see anything. I didn't feel anything. I mean, besides the normal creepy feeling you get in a dark bathroom, you know, and the mirror. So for a long time, mirrors have been thought of to be portals. You're supposed to not sleep with a mirror facing your bed. You're uh supposed to, they used to cover mirrors when someone would die. I believe it was to keep the spirit from leaving the mirror or entering the mirror and haunting you. I don't know. I'd have to look into that. But yeah, people would uh cover mirrors after someone died. Uh every mirror in the whole house. So mirrors are apparently portals. And I guess this is how Bloody Mary makes her appearance. She finds that portal and comes through. But like I said, when I did the ritual, there was nothing. Could be that I don't believe in Bloody Mary. Um, I don't know. If you do, that's well and good. I'm not here to pick on you. Everybody has their thing. So, but I get all my information came from for tonight, Wikipedia, www.wikihow.com, good novel, and the lineup. So I've really enjoyed being here with y'all tonight. I've enjoyed so much doing these podcasts. Uh, I need to have a more um steady day that they go out. I like them to go out on Friday nights. Uh but sometimes I just I'm so tired I just can't. So it goes out on a Saturday night. But I stay up too late and I have church in the morning. So I think it's gonna be Friday night that I need to get them out. So hang on for that. I'll have a new episode next week. And just remember shh, it's gonna be okay.