User talk:Ilovelucycody

scary legends
== Popular Legends ==

Legends are fictionous stories with a baseline. You have all probably heard "ghost stories" or "monster stories". They are pretty false in most part, but there was a reason for for the stroy remember. "Dracula" for example is based on a cruel king by the name of Vlad Dracula who was a murderous man and killed several hundreds of people in his time of reign. In the story of "Count Dracula", Dracula is an undead man who sucks the blood of the living to give him more power. In reality, this probably was not true about Vlad.

Another example of a scary legend are witches. In the early days of America, in the 13 colonies, there were things called witch trials that were held all the time. People were afraid of witches, people congered up magic spells and potions, so they had them put to death. But the thing was, probably a very small percent of these people murdered for witches practiced any witchcraft at all! Anyone who acted the littlest bit strange was put on trial and killed by one of many torture devices that were around. One of the best known places for the witch trials was Salem, Massachusettes. Now, several years after this masacre, millions of people had added witches to their own legends. "The Blaire Witch Project" is a popular movie, along with "An American Haunting". "The Bell witch" is supposedly a true story about a family who moved to a new house in New England and were haunted right put by the ghost a witch named "The Bell Witch"

Who's ever heard of the Legend of Bloody Mary? Bloody Mary is supposedly Mary I, Queen of England from the 1500s. Mary was a devout Roman Catholic. She persecutes more then 300 Protestants, killing them all at the stake. That of course is how She got the nickname, Bloody Mary. Legend says that if you look into a mirror with the lights off, and say "bloody Mary", "Bloody Mary" over and over again, she'll appear and pull you into the mirror with her. This is a popular game often played at sleepovers. Also, look for the movie "The Candyman". it may not be about the Queen of England, but it is about a girl named Mary who dies in a car crash long ago and her terrorizing some people.