A really, really interesting read

[mollipen]

It's an old story, buy my friend just dug it up, and it really gave me a lot to think about on a number of levels. (Not to mention the fact that the story is far more interesting than a lot of the stuff that Hollywood has cranked out lately.) Yes, it is a bit long - stick with it, trust me.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/issues/...5/feature.html

[Doug Branches]

When I was a kid me and my friends convinced ourselves that Super Shredder lived in the widlerness area behind our neighborhood

[frostwolf ex]

interesting, that clicking banner ad just about drove me insane, but very very interesting.

[mollipen]

interesting, that clicking banner ad just about drove me insane, but very very interesting.

Yeah, took me a few minutes to figure out what the hell that noise was. I kept looking around, and checking to see what other program on my TiBook it would be causing that noise. (I had scrolled down enough that I never got a good look at the banner.)

[Grave]

interesting, that clicking banner ad just about drove me insane, but very very interesting.

I couldn't read it until I muted it. DEATH UNTO ADS WITH SOUND.

[Mzo]

When I was little, I completely believed that if you stared into a mirror long enough, the devil would come out of it and drag you in. I don't know where I got that from, but I honestly believed it.

If I was in that study, locked in a room looking at mirrors, I'd freak out.

[Kidnemo]

Very, very interesting.

[BioMechanic]

While reading this, I kept thinking of Clive Barker's urban myth story (I think it was called "The Madonna") that was made into the film Candyman.

I knew a law school professor who was sort of an expert on La Llorona, a very interesting Mexican myth.

I'm gonna send that link to a few friends of mine. Thanks for posting it - very thought-provoking.

[Josh]

What if they're right?

[Scourge]

Interesting stuff.

Her name was first spoken in hushed tones among children all over America nearly twenty years ago. Even in Sweden folklorists reported Bloody Mary's fame. Children of all races and classes told of the hideous demon conjured by chanting her name before a mirror in a pitch-dark room. (In Miami shelters, the mirror must be coated with ocean water, a theft from the Blue Lady's domain.) And when she crashes through the glass, she mutilates children before killing them. Bloody Mary is depicted in Miami kids' drawings with a red rosary that, the secret stories say, she uses as a weapon, striking children across the face.

Angels reported rumors of Bloody Mary's pact with Satan: She had killed her own child and had made a secret vow to kill all human children.

Did no one else use to do this? When I was in second or third grade in '79 or '80 we used to go in the school restroom and turn off the lights and try to conjure Bloody Mary up in the mirror. Yep, she killed her kid and vowed to kill all children. So it was a dare to try to summon her. I lived. We even used to say that 'if she sees your face, she'll know you forever and she'll keep coming after you until she gets you' thing. The thing was you were supposed to try to see her and not get killed, by turning the light on before she got you, if I remember correctly.