18th February: Birth of "Bloody Mary"

10 things that are known as "Bloody Mary":





The Drink



1. The Original: Queen Mary I of England, Queen from 1553 to 1558, born on 18 February 1516; daughter of Henry VIII and sister of Elizabeth I.
2. The Drink: a cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and other flavourings.
3. The legend: a ghost or spirit said to appear in a mirror to individuals or groups (usually teenagers) when her name is called multiple times. She is sometimes covered in blood. Those who summon her may experience her screaming at them, cursing them, strangling them, stealing their soul, drinking their blood, or scratching their eyes out.
4. The movie: 2006 thriller-horror film written and directed by Richard Valentine, about a group of nurses at a psychiatric hospital who dare one of their group to go into the hospital's basement to summon the ghost as described above. She is taken by the vengeful spirit and vanishes. As the film progresses, more people are killed by Bloody Mary in various gruesome ways.
5. The song by Lady Gaga from her second studio album, Born This Way (2011).
6. The comic book character (1): an extraterrestrial vampire in the DC Comics universe. an energy vampire who sucks the life out of her victims. She flies using a disk and can project energy out of her eyes that can hypnotically manipulate her enemies.
7. The elephant: also known as Murderous Mary, an Asian circus Elephant who in 1916, killed a hotel worker named Red Eldridge who led the elephant parade, although he was not qualified. He prodded her behind the ear with a hook after she reached down to nibble on a watermelon rind. She went into a rage, snatched Eldridge with her trunk, threw him against a drink stand and stepped on his head, crushing it. Several nearby towns threatened not to allow the circus to visit if Mary was included. The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, decided that the only way to resolve this was to kill the elephant in public. She was was hanged by the neck from an industrial crane in front of over 2,500 people.
8. The musical character: Bloody Mary is a character in the book Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, on which the musical South Pacific was based. She is an islander, who trades with the US sailors.
9. The Comic Book Character (2): Corporal "Bloody Mary" Malone in a series of science fiction comic books written by Garth Ennis, set in the year 2012.
10. The TV programme: An episode of South Park in which Randy believes that a bleeding statue of the Virgin Mary can cure his alcoholism.