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Mirror courtesy of : rammkitty.
White hood courtesy of: auroradreams.
Textures by Ghostbones & me.
Final processing by me.

The Tale:

A group of girls are having a sleepover, and sometime during the night they decide to take it in turns to tell each other ghost stories.
By the time the story telling reaches Anne's turn, all the girls are already feeling freaked out. After thinking hard, Anne decides to tell a story that her Aunty used to tell her.
The name of the story is 'Bloody Mary':

Over one hundred years ago, a woman by the name of 'Mary Worth' was lynched from her family home by an angry mob accusing her of witchcraft.
She was tortured and then burned at the stake witnessed by the whole village. As the burning flames engulfed her, she screamed out a curse damning the whole village.

It is said that the vengeful spirit of Mary Worth can be summoned by looking directly into a mirror after it is dark and with no lights on. After repeating 'Bloody Mary' five times, her face will appear in the mirror and…well, no one knows!

After Anne has told her story, the girls are shocked into silence. After a short period they start giggling nervously and dare each other to go into the bathroom, turn out the lights, look into the mirror and repeat 'Bloody Mary' five times.
Anne takes up the challenge and tells the girls that it was just a story and that she doesn't believe in Mary Worth anyway.

Anne enters the bathroom, and the girls hear her repeat 'Bloody Mary' five times.

After the fifth time there is deadly silence, and the girls start knocking on the bathroom door asking if Anne was all right.
After a few minutes the door slowly opens and Anne appears in the doorway. She is visibly shaking and has gone as white as a ghost.
She is clenching her fists so hard that she has drawn blood in the palms of her hand.

Anne could never tell the girls what actually happened in that bathroom, and has never been able to talk about it since!