Episode Fifty-Five Pt.1: Bloody Mary [feat. Back Away Slowly] Spooktober Urban Legends
Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology PodcastShow Notes
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Happy Spooktober, Fiends! This month, we are treating you to an Urban Legends Special and kicking off with the most iconic bathroom ghost of all: Bloody Mary. Em of the Back Away Slowly Podcast has done an insane deep dive into urban legends and Mary herself, so it was only fitting that we summon her for this one. It's going to be a two-parter, with Part 1 being a general intro to Em and Urban Legends, the Bloody Mary legend, and who she could originally have been.
Don't forget to come back October 14th for Part 2!
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S O U R C E S:
American children's folklore by Bronner, Simon J Bloody Mary in the Mirror: A Ritual Reflection of Pre-Pubescent Anxiety Alan Dundes, Western Folklore Vol. 57, No. 2/3 (Spring - Summer, 1998) Cognitive Evolution and the Transmission of Popular Narratives: A Literature Review and Application to Urban Legends - Joe Stubbersfield, Emma Flynn, Jamshid Tehrani Psychology (PSY) https://mikesirota.com/myths-and-legends-haunted-bathrooms-around-the-world/ Girls, Moral Panic and News Media Troublesome BodiesBy Sharon Mazzarella · https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/sports-and-leisure/bloody-mary-folklore#full-article https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/bloody-mary/ https://erenow.org/common/american-myths-legends-tall-tales-3-volumes-encyclopedia-american-folklore/61.php https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-our-collection/highlights/context/sign-and-symbols/mirrors Ghosts in Mirrors: Reflections of the Self Elizabeth Tucker The Journal of American Folklore Vol. 118, No. 468, Emerging Legends in Contemporary Society (Spring, 2005), pp. 186-203 (18 pages) Linda Dégh, Legend and Belief. Dialectics of a Folklore Genre [2001] Orma. Journal of Ethnological and Historical-Religious Studies Indiana University Press, 2001 https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2017/04/through-glass-darkly-mirrors-myths-and.html https://www.twowaymirrors.com/mirror-superstitions/ Godinez, Mac (2023-11-29). "Violent Reflections: Bloody Mary in 1990s Pop Culture". University of Massachusetts Undergraduate History Journal. 7 (1). doi:10.7275/zmph-jf77. https://www.jesterbear.com/Wicca/BloodyMary2.html https://funeral.com/es/blogs/podcasts/covering-mirrors-after-death-meaning-and-modern-mourning
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