A Creepy Challenge
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2019 2:43 pm
Hi Folks:
I probably posted something about this a few years back, but I thought I would renew it in the form of a challenge. I remember as a child, when we use to have séances tell ghost stories and the like, there was this one legend that use to scare the bejeebers out of all of us. It was the legend of Mary Worth. It was believed that if you shut off the light, place a candle in front of a mirror, star at your reflection and recite the incantation: "I believe in Mary Worth" 7 times, she would appear in the form of a hideous old hag and you would die.
When I was a kid, I got as far as lighting the candle and placing it in front of the mirror over the dresser in the bedroom my younger sister shared, but I completely chickened out on reciting the incantation. To this very day I have never done it.
Have any of you put such a legend to the test?
Mike
I probably posted something about this a few years back, but I thought I would renew it in the form of a challenge. I remember as a child, when we use to have séances tell ghost stories and the like, there was this one legend that use to scare the bejeebers out of all of us. It was the legend of Mary Worth. It was believed that if you shut off the light, place a candle in front of a mirror, star at your reflection and recite the incantation: "I believe in Mary Worth" 7 times, she would appear in the form of a hideous old hag and you would die.
When I was a kid, I got as far as lighting the candle and placing it in front of the mirror over the dresser in the bedroom my younger sister shared, but I completely chickened out on reciting the incantation. To this very day I have never done it.
Have any of you put such a legend to the test?
Mike
