The Origin of the Bloody Mary Urban Legend
There was a Bloody Mary in history: Queen Mary I of England. She has her own myths, such as murdering young girls to bathe in their blood to preserve her youth. This is nonsense; she came by her name for killing Protestants in an attempt to return England to Catholicism. But the blood bath story is great for the Bloody Mary urban legend. Other Mary’s are women who died in car crashes or were murdered in their sleep, or witches who were burned at the stake. While the details often change, the general idea of the sleep over activity remain the same.