Information about the upcoming
Bloody Mary book
If you liked this site's article about the legend of Bloody Mary, the spirit in a mirror
who has become the focus of many wildly different children's
stories and games, you'll love the upcoming book being published
by author Dan Norder.
This book will be called The Face in The Mirror - Reflections
on the Legend of Bloody Mary and will be available to
order on this website, in bookstores and at online sites such
as Amazon.com. The cover illustration is by
Naomi Nowak,
an up-and-coming artist in Sweden who also did some translation
work for research into the Svarte Madame variant of the legend.
(If you are interested, you can check to see if she currently has any original
artwork for sale on eBay.)
The book goes into much greater detail about most of the content
in the original article. Here is
a partial list of just some of the topics that will be covered:
 The
influence of the Salem Witch Trials.
- Other children's games involving mirrors.
- Tracking down claims that Mary Worth was a witch who lived
in Illinois.
- The Jewish demoness Lilith as a mirror spirit.
- Mexico's Wailing Woman La Llorona, her origins and her influence
on the legends.
- The location of the Black Aggie statue featured in one of
the variations of the story's theme.
- More on Spain's seance and ouija spirit Veronica, including
theories on her origin and relationship to the mirror spirit
folklore.
- Examining the psychoanalytic interpretation of the legend.
- Medieval warnings about the use of mirrors.
- Stories of the Virgin Mary as an apparition, and sometimes
as a demon.
- The Blue Baby legends.
- How fictional books and movies influenced and copied the
legends.
- A real life killer named Mary who had her own children's
rhyme and ritual.
The information in this book comes from more than 500 different
variants of the legend collected by the author as well as years
of research into related themes. If you'd like to be informed
about the latest news on the release of this book, just send
us your email address and we'll send you news as it develops.
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