Bloody Mary - the history of the English queen, as well as the tricks of one witch ...

Contrary to popular belief, Bloody Mary is not just a cocktail. In fact, this is the nickname of the famous English Queen Mary I Tudor, who lived in 1516-1558. Her nickname was the queen due to unheard of cruelty towards her subjects. Being an ardent Catholic who does not accept other religions, she mercilessly executed more than 300 Protestants, and this is just 5 years of rule! And with the killing of ordinary inhabitants the queen did not stop, her anger touched also Archbishop Cranmer, who, like everyone else, was burned at the stake. There are many legends associated with Bloody Mary, the story of one of them is closely intertwined with the legend of Countess Bathory, a woman cruel and narcissistic. As the legend says, Bloody Mary used the blood of young Protestant girls to prolong her youth.

However, there is another version of the prototype Bloody Mary. This is Mary Worth - a real woman, who brutally killed her own children. Harold Brunwend, the famous writer and inventor of the term "urban legends", devoted a whole chapter to her in one of her books entitled "I Believe in Mary Worth." According to another version, Mary Wales was the girl who later became known as Bloody Mary. The story goes that she was a Catholic seminary student and died of blood loss after she was torn off her face. Since then, her spirit can not find peace.

Although the history of the Queen Mary of England is full of events and really terrible scenes, the most terrible stories about Bloody Mary seem to be more interesting to most people - legends and legends. The most common of them says that her spirit can be called by pronouncing the name "Maria" in front of the mirror. However, what was the reason for the appearance of such superstition? There are several versions, or rather, legends.

According to one version, the spirit of the brutally murdered girl moved into the mirror and kills anyone who turns to her - this is Bloody Mary. The story goes that a girl named Marie Warrington died before her own mirror - the killer cut her eyes. However, the most common and ancient tradition is associated with ancient times, when people firmly believed in the existence of otherworldly unclean forces, witches and sorcerers. This story tells of a terrible witch, who was nicknamed Bloody Mary. The legend says that on the edge of a small village there lived a mighty old witch-woman, whom no one dared to contradict, for fear of spoilage.

Once in the village little girls began to disappear, and their bodies were not found either in the village or in the forest nearby. Bloody Mary denied her involvement in the murders, but it was impossible not to notice that she looked much younger ... At night the little miller's daughter got out of bed and left the house, walking to the sound that only she could hear. Running out of the house, the miller discovered Bloody Mary: she stood on the edge of the forest and pointed to the miller's house, her body shone.

Seeing this scene, the villagers took up arms, caught and burned the witch in the square. However, before the death, the witch managed to utter a terrible curse. Henceforth, anyone who utters her name three times in front of a mirror will know the torments of death, and his spirit will forever be imprisoned in a mirror trap, burning in a hellfire that the body of a witch, nicknamed Bloody Mary, knew. History does not confirm such a legend, but the strange things associated with this mysterious person really happen ...