Bloody Mary: Origins of the Urban Legend - Extra Mythology
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Ever whispered 'Bloody Mary' into a mirror? Discover the haunting origins of this spine-chilling legend. 🕯️🔍 From an innocent herbalist named Mary Worth in 1600s New England to the blood-curdling curse that promises vengeful terror, plunge into the dark heart of this enduring myth. Is it just an urban legend? Or is there more lurking behind your reflection? Dare to watch, but don't say we didn't warn you!
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It's always a good day when extra mythology is uploaded
Hi.
surprised you didn't mention any of the other folklore origins behind Bloody Mary, in England we were always taught that it was Queen Mary I of England, Bloody Mary herself
i never knew that there were variations from Mary I as the origin for Bloody Mary
@@TheOneHumanDinoThe only version I'd heard of was queen Mary I. The nickname is simple enough - she had a lot of her subjects executed
Heck I'm American and I never heard of the colonial version. I only ever associated it with the Tudor.
...and sometimes confusing her for Mary, Queen of Scots thanks to the ambiguous mishmash of history present in Terranigma.
Yea, I thought it was her too. In my version that I heard, a groundskeeper in Westminster passed by her coffin with a mirror. He then said "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. You are not so scary." And then she kidnapped him.
Or Dr. Mary Agana, the psycho shrink from the 1950s who tortured a bunch of her patients to death before suddenly vanishing.
As a kid I did the Bloody Mary ritual only when the lights were off I stubbed my toe on a piece of broken wood which cut it and drew blood all over the floor. So that was fun!
So the ritual worked then? Creepy!
When I did it I was told you have to be staring into your own eyes when you say it, you'll see her reflection in there. Then one of my friends banged on the door just as I said the last bloody Mary and I jumped, head butting the mirror. Didn't break it luckily but I did bite my lip quite badly and came out of the bathroom with blood running down my chin... quite a shock when I looked up and saw myself I can tell you! For the other boys at the sleepover when I came out the room too.
Well, they don’t call her Bloody Mary for nothing.
@@MovieFan1912😂
sounds like you got off easy tbh
Fun fact there's an actual psychological phenomenon at play here: Staring at your reflection in darkness if you can partially see will actually eventually temporarily distort what you see. It's your mind trying to "fill in" the rest of the picture it can't make out. It's an instinctual survival tactic, but that's why superstitious people who try it will assuredly tell you they saw a ghost. Also I remember a variation where the villagers killed Mary's son, and so she left them with that curse. If you say her name 13 times and then say "I know where your son is" she'll come out looking for him.
I knew that, that's why I'm always cautious in a dark room so that my mind doesn't purposely sabotage me into thinking there's something gonna kill me
It's why eistriphobia exists.
@@Superblaze167I don't think that word exists
@@nicolemelo8994 it's the fear of mirrors, maybe I spelt it wrong but it exists, it should be eisoptrophobia if I'm right, so I spelt it wrong
@@nicolemelo8994 but technically there's a couple words for the fear of mirrors, like spectrophobia, so you aren't wrong for blaming me
I said Bloody Mary 3 times at brunch today and she cursed me with a hangover.
Yikes! That's brutal!
ok this is actually really clever this should have more likes
Lmfao good one
This got a big grin out of me!
I wish you'd briefly talked about why silver bullets are used to kill ANYTHING at all: Silver is a holy metal. That's why vampires don't have a reflection and why werewolves are struck down by it, and why he planned to use them on the witch. It banishes the unholy.
Obviously when Bloody Mary appears, he'll say "Please state the nature of the medical emergency!". She's a disembodied healer after all.
😂😂😂 That would be excellent! Such a helpful spirit!
Nice *claps
@@extrahistory except she obviously killed people
Instant 911
why yell bloody mary 3 times when you can just yell out Mediiiic! once?
Growing up in Canada I was always told by older kids you had to hold a knife to your throat and say her name 9 times in the mirror, funny how the urban legend differs from region to region and time period
I also live in Canada, and I heard a mix of things. Bloody Mary is Mary I of England who executed people a lot, and to summon her, simply go in a bathroom at night, lights out, only a candle. Say her name 3 times and there she is.
Growing up on Toronto , Canada I was told you had to spin around 3 times as well
I live in Canada and I was told you had to go into the bathroom, shut off the lights, spin in a circle 3 times while saying her name once each spin, and then you shut and opened your eyes and she was supposedly in the mirror.
As a fellow canadien I was told that u needed 3 lit candles
Also Canadian, and somehow never heard a single version of the story, except as a thing characters in TV shows, movies and books would occasionally reference.
The subtle change in aspect ratio was key for the jump scare! Kudos!
As someone who watches too many horror analogs, i was not that scared :3
It's 11 pm in India and that jumpscare scene at the end really took me off-guard and out of sleep😂
Not gonna lie - I watched it just after 4 in the afternoon and I jumped too...
@@trinefanmelpower of bloody Mary indeed😂
Thanks for the heads up
Thank you homie
I was on the toilet and literally it scared me
I was told Bloody Mary was a woman who lost her baby (it was taken or something), either in childbirth or because she killed it and then regretted her decision. And that if you said her name, she would come out and scratch you. BUT if you REALLY wanted to see her, then you had to say her name and tell her “I have your baby” and rock your arms like you were holding said baby. Then you’d feel a weight in your arms (and in some iterations, even hear it crying!), and mom herself would come out looking for it. Scary!!! One does NOT get between a mom and her baby, much less an undead one with that much urban street credit behind her!!
Hey thats actually the story I originally grew up with! Cool to finally find like one person who knows it!
I’m pretty sure that’s a different one!! Blue baby baby blue or something like that
Been a huge fan of you guys since the beginning! Love to see how the EC team has branched out into so many different subject types, urban lore is so fascinating and underappreciated. Thanks for sharing!
Question: How come so many myths take place in a bathroom with plumbing? Between this and Hanako-san (or kun) I wonder why these myths started in a place where the worse thing you would see is a toilet that someone forgot to flush.
(Maybe that last part could of answered my own question...)
The bathroom represents vulnerability, most uses of that part of the house require a level of exposure or even reduced mobility. When your pants are down around your ankles It's way harder to run from the Babylonian poop demon.
It’s where people are the most vulnerable naked in the shower or sitting on the throne, with generaly no large windows and only one way out. Scary
@@Khofax 100%
Even worse, Hanako-san mostly applies to school toilets. Possibly some of the worst places on Earth. At least the Japanese ones are usually clean.
*could HAVE
Bloody Mary? Isn’t that the alcoholic beverage?
You definitely don't want to mix them up at brunch.
Well yes, but actually no.
yep, tomaters, vodka and the rest
Nah, it's just a Brit swearing at someone named Mary
High school? We all learned about Bloody Mary in elementary school. It’s always a ritual done during sleepovers.
I did as you asked, but being from the Philippines all I did was confuse the local ghosts and monsters.
One of them chided me about calling them just to order some tomato-based bar drink.
Maybe something to note: even attempting the dare does, to some degree, imply that you believe that Mary DID lay a curse, and therefore that you believe she WAS a witch, and that her gruesome lynching was justified. Which isn't exactly the sort of attitude you want to give off towards a Vengeful Ghost of any kind!!!
Can you not believe she was a witch but the lynching was entirely un-justified??? I.e. she didn't do all the evil they said?
@@SplatterInker they found the bodies that's physical evidence
@@reynellfreeman8761claimed to have found the bodies*
@@soulstealer5625 thats pretty big claim from a pretty large group of people who could've searched the house and found said bodies
welp, RIP to the parents who calls their child named "Mary" to come to the bathroom
😂😂😂
Specifically British parents
It's the myth that scared me the most when I was a child.
Me too!
7:22 That's a cold line. "The only way to know the truth, is to dare" I might use that in the future.
Mirrors in the dark are ridiculously scary even without any superstitions tied to them. There's something absolutely magnetizing about a bathroom mirror at night, and whenever I give in to the temptation and let my gaze linger on my reflection a little bit, I start seeing something that is undoubtedly myself, but with a sick, sullen, malnourished face and dark, dark eyes with seemingly nothing but endless void behind them. And every time afterwards, I'm left a little more nervous, a little more anxious, and, ultimately, a little closer to becoming the same as the face I saw, as if it drained some of my energy for itself in a twisted, Picture of Dorian Gray sort of way.
Tudor Mary : wait … I thought I was given the name
One thing about Bloody Mary is that there doesn't seem to be a definitive way to summon her. I grew up being told to summon her was to light a candle, flush a toilet once, spin around twice, and then say her name three times. You then had to stare into the mirror and if you looked long enough, you could see her.
This seems to differ from region and time period, since I'm from the US
genuinely loved the wrap around of truth or dare from the beginning of the video to the end. that was cool!
That jump scare was so good it probably can scare a kid to cry
Ah, I always assumed Bloody Mary was connected with Mary Queen of Scots somehow. Thanks for informing me.
Also, jumpscare at 7:37 for anybody who needs it.
Or the cocktail
Oh, thanks a lot, man. I was alone with lights out.
thank u man i hate jump scares
Same here.
@@makshay
Ooh, I know this one, the 'forgetting your own face' illusion thing, where if you hold perfectly still (including your eyes) staring at one spot for long enough (especially in poor light) looking for something that isn't there, your vision gets progressively less detailed and more and more replaced with imagination, including losing the ability to recognize yourself in the mirror and feeling you're watching another person (often considered highly disturbing), and if you're in a spooky mood from a ghost story, these hallucinations tend to be even more frightening and vivid, until you flinch even slightly, at which point your vision returns to normal.
… or, maybe she’ll stare at you with such a withering look it will drive you to your nearest confessional
Damn as a Canadian i was always scared of this myth as everyone was scared to do it, but great job telling more information about that I never knew! Also that ending caught me off guard!
I don't scare easily, but that jump scare was unexpected. 😅😅😅 Nearly made me drop my phone.
I heard a different version of Mary as a kid, like how she was in deep sleep and her parents put her in the ground. She woke up and scratched the coffin walls with a promise that she will come back to haunt anyone that said her name.
I am impressed you have cameras that can pick up Ghosts.
Think I was in 4th or 5th grade when I first heard of Bloody Marry and it was because of Twisted Metal that a friend's older brother had on his ps2. That game was fun to play, but the cutscenes were scary to me as a kid.
Huh, figured there would be mention of how Bloody Mary was one of the nicknames given to Queen Mary I of England due to her aggressive means of retuning England to Catholicism.
You guys's videos are so good, I always watch the newest one.
That Bloody Mary jumpscare basically killed me
The tale of Bloody Mary also gave us some of the greatest horror-movie slasher-monsters, like Freddy Kreuger and The Candyman.
Oh my god!! My friends had this huge fear of bloody Mary when we were 12! We liked to play a game where the we had to scare each other😅 I called bloody Mary three times and then pretended to have a seizure 😂 I won that round
7:33 I JUMPED
Awesome thanks i grew up with a different version of the story but I enjoyed this one too
I still remember doing the bloody mary mirror challenge in elementary around 2013
GODDAMN! That freaked me out
Please remember to place a pumpkin spice latte in front of the mirror before invoking Bloody Mary.
Despite being centuries behind on basically everything, she's surprisingly pleasant to chat with if you treat her well.
Oh! I almost forgot the most important part 🤦🏼♀️
She's lactose intolerant, so ask for a non-dairy milk in the latte, because she'll totally merc you if you give her dairy.
I love the Bloody Mary cocktail on the desk.
The youthful appearance is probably from living in the woods. Less exposure to the sun, possibly higher humidity. Might’ve just been a heavy water drinker lol
Reminds me how back in elementary school my friend scared me with a story of Bloody Mary about how she was locked in her bathroom either accidentally or purposely and was killed and eaten by her abused dog.
I loved this, but I’m not sure if this is a more Americanised version of the tale? In the U.K. and in general we think of Bloody Mary as Mary Tudor, the queen who burnt thousands of people at the stake and earned the nickname
Ive heard one that was similar La Llanora. TL;DR, You'll feel a mass enter your arms when you cradle em, you were "given" the baby to hold. If you "drop" the baby, you'll be cursed or something.
please now do an extra history on "Bloody Mary" Tudor so we can have the other version of the myth covered.
I have the feeling this is also the origin story of the valpurgis night, maybe y'all could make a video about this if you didn't already, the valpurgis night that is
And here I thought that this was just something imagined by my classmates long ago. I'm surprised at how intact this myth was, considering who was telling it, where and when.
Bloody hell, you guys gave me a jumpscare - I knew it was coming and I still got a jumpscare. (Mind you, I get those easily, I even got one to a simpsons halloween episode once).
Born & raised in Louisiana the most common origin I've heard is that bloody mary is queen mary i - the much less heard origin is marie laveau, the voodoo queen.
The jumpscare at the end was peak lmfao
I mean there is also the historical Bloody Mary. She's a lot spookier, and I thought this was about her. Huh. But it's really just inaccurate Puritan stuff.
And, of course, I don't believe burning people at the stake was a thing done by the New England colonists. The punishment for witchcraft was hanging, and it was not a common charge. Especially after Salem, which was widely considered a massive screw up at the time. Oh! And there was another witch trial, this one in Connecticut in 1692. I recommend Richard Godbeer's "Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Trial of 1692" or something like that.
I was taught one that she was a witch who was burned with her kids in their house and she was looking into the mirror as it happened and the mirror was the only thing that survived the fire leaving her spirit inside of it
I remember hearing this once so it’s not mines, what if you get 2 mirrors that are face to face, in one you summon Bloody Mary, and the other u summon candyman, and set them on a date with all the roses and candles are romantic instead of creepy
I grew up saying I believe in Mary Worth, burning a single small candle while you say it 3 times.
If I ever summoned Bloody Mary, I would first make my intentions clear. Even vengeful doctor spirits need besties
Interesting. I always thought Bloody Mary was based on Queen Mary of England
Loved this one. Would love to see more videos about modern myths!
You have me heart attack with that jump scare
I like how theres a bloody mary on the desk
I thought Bloody Mary was based of an English queen named Mary who got ALOT of people’s heads cut off ! And jump-scare got me at the end 😆😆
7:30 jumpscare of the decade
If only you could just talk to her, then you would be able to learn so much about her story and what it was like to live in the past.
"it is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both"-Machlavelli
Hmm... I think I know the origin of this story. I can think of a reason why teenage girls in the 1600s might slip out in the night... promiscuous teenage girls... and desperate mothers-to-be later on. The remedies available back then could easily have resulted in their deaths which explains the graves. Mary could've been someone that understood such yearnings and simply tried to help.
OMG BRO PLEASE TELL ME THE MUSIC OF THE INTRO PLEEEAASSEE IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL
It was believed the urban legend was based on a queen mary who was essentially a sadist who bathed in the blood or her servant girls
Idk if you guys would be interested but a lot of popular urban legends have ties to real world stuff mostly true crime and it would be cool to see you guys do a series on each well known urban legend and the true history behind them
Examples of some intriguing urban legends with interesting origins are:
the hook man: multiple origins from the red scare to the Texarkana moonlight murders
the babysitter (when a stranger calls): true crime case of a murdered teen (victim of a potential serial killer)
tainted halloween candy: serial killer, filicide, and the satanic panic (another history topic that you guys should cover)
Cropsey: true crime case that has a interesting update
Mary Queen of Scots was nicknamed Bloody Mary for her supposed killings of hundreds of protestants by burning at the stake. It was an Elizabeth Bathory who would bathe in the blood of poor peaseant girls and noble people's daughters. I believe she told them they were going to a school to become proper noblewomen. Her death toll is possibly in the hundreds. She was not executed like her supposed accomplices. Instead, she was bricked up in a room of her castle with only one brick hole for food and light.
That one was probably based on Erzebeth Bathory, the Countess of Blood from Hungary.
@@abcdef27669nah, "bloody" Mary I Tudor herself. Sister of Elisabeth I. For her protestant massacres and persecutions.
I think you’re mixing up Elizabeth bath pry and Mary Tudor
@@theMRsome12Mary Tudor definately did not have a reputation for bathing in blood. Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian noble named inspiration for gothic vampires, certainly DID.
However it is Mary who has the title of bloody for legally executing heretics.
Bloody Mary? Yes, thanks, with a splash of Tabasco sauce and a celery stick, please!
Honestly who ever came up with putting tomato juice in vodka deserve a visit by her 😄
in brazil bloddy mary is loira do banheiro (bathroom blonde?), the story i heard about it was about a woman that was quartered an flushed in the toilet, but if i'm not mistaken there are other versions and it let me thinking about the bloody mary of other cultures that i don't know. btw is the same thing you have to say loira do banheiro in the bathroom 3 times idk about the mirror tough there is quite a while that i heard these stories =)
Thank you for making this I have been looking for this kind of nostalgia in a long time
This is also the best sponsorship segue you've ever done
My cousins had me say Bloody Mary 3x in the mirror then they turned out the lights and held the door closed from the other side as I screamed & cried
everyone asks for Bloody Mary, but never Asks How she's doing.
frankly, with all the spam calls she's getting by modern children, and folks who've heard the telephone game of her tale, i'd at least assume she'd be fine with taking a legitimate call.
heck, it'd probably be nice to get a call from someone who wouldn't freak out or be annoying and just leave her on hold.
on top of that, i wonder how she would react to being prominent enough in myth that she had a drink named after her myth.
This is an interesting story, but does it seem weird to anyone else that the woman that is supposedly covered in blood was burned at the stake? You'd think that if this was the story she'd look more like Freddy Kruger
THAT JUMPSCARE
"Her mother was awake in the next room treating a toothache with one of Mary's herbal remedies, and no doubt thinking about where she'd get her meds after they burned the pharmacist." LOL
7:38 WHY THE JUMPSCARE?!
7:37 Goddamn it, Matt! I dropped my phone
1:46 to be fair everyone will die someday
love the little bloody mary cocktail on the table
this is one of few supernatural things I'm too scared to do
I always thought it was meant to Queen Mary of England, who was called Bloody Mary from all the people she had executed trying to make England catholic again. The rhyme I was taught in primary school in Australia was to say “Bloody Mary had no baby” three times.
So i don't 100% remember what the lote around Bloody Mary was when I first heard it at 7, but I do remember if you said her name three times with the lights out in the bathroom before a mirror (or silver bowl filled with water) at midnight (preferably with a candle); she'd appear and haunt you to your grave or drag you into an early one. Also while haunting you to your grave horrible things would happen around and to you.
When I was younger my oldest cousin attempted to make me summon bloody marry, they didn’t tell me anything scary about it, because obviously I would never do it if it was scary. She told me that she just wanted to play and be friends with me, but I wasn’t allowed to stop playing with her or she’ll hurt me, I was going to do it until she told me to do it in complete darkness. I was afraid of the dark when I was younger, but my cousin wouldn’t budge yelled at me to do it. My parents came into the room we shared and ask us what was all the noise about, I told my parents everything and my mom was very angry. We all believed in spirits, because we had many encounters with ghost even some of our baby cousins asking to play with a deceased family member they never met. My mom yelled at my cousin saying I could have gotten traumatized, hurt or worse, I heard my cousin whisper under her breath that that was the point. To sum it up my cousin attempted to traumatize me, get me injured or maybe even kill me when I was younger by playing bloody Mary. 💀💀💀💀💀
Thanks for the jumpscare 😵
"borrow a life human!" OH MY GOD CUTE
My bathroom doesent have a mirror lol
I actually do know someone who did this and he actually died. I guess the lesson here is you can say ‘Bloody Mary’ all you want, but you need to look for traffic before crossing the road.
I got scared so much from that jumpscare i didnt even reacit...
the jump scare made me scream so loud my mom came running into my room
Did this Bloody Mary thing in 4th grade and we were thinking of Queen Mary I as “Bloody Mary” interesting to know the truth of the “person”
Jumpscare got me
glad ive finally found a video so close to release....thankfully youtube notifications worked lol
No way a drink can do all that!
When you watch a mythology video & find out where Hocus Pocus got their ideas from
7:37 My body left my soul 💀