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BLOODY MARY LEGEND

Who can forget the scary story of Bloody Mary, the evil spirit who will scratch your eyes out when summoned? Most people heard the Bloody Mary legend when they were children, listening to spooky ghost stories around the campfire. The tale is still told at slumber parties, campouts, and late-night bonfire parties.
The legend claims that the evil woman can be summoned by chanting "Bloody Mary" into a mirror anywhere from three to one-hundred times in a darkened room lit only by a candle. (Thirteen seems to be the most popular number of chants, appropriately so.) The bathroom is the most popular setting to test out the legend, but other dark rooms seem applicable.
After the given amount of chants, the spirit will then appear in a mirror to claw your eyes out. Death will follow. Other variations have her driving you insane or pulling you into the mirror, never to be seen again.
Who Bloody Mary really is remains a mystery. While there are many versions of this story, most accounts point to a woman named Mary Worth, who was horribly disfigured in a car crash. Some people still tell of a witch who was burned at the stake and has returned for revenge, or it may be the devil himself who comes for your soul.
The Bloody Mary Legend saw some rising popularity with a variation of the story in the 1992 movie "Candyman" that used the idea for it's plot. When the characters chanted "Candyman" in the mirror 5 times, he would appear and murder them with his hook hand. I found this movie terrifying! Although I can say that as an adult I generally don't have any nightmares from horror movies, this one I remember vividly -- waking up in a cold sweat, and trying not to fall back asleep.
The movie "Urban Legend" was released to theatres in 1998 and borrowed the Bloody Mary myth once again, for one of it's stories. As if that wasn't enough, 2005 brought us "Urban Legends: Bloody Mary," which was released directly to DVD. There's no doubt, the horrific tale will appear again, perhaps in yet another version with a different twist.
While you may think you're safe from mean, old Bloody Mary, think again... Legend has it that if you are near a mirror in total darkness, she can still come for you, regardless of whether or not you're trying to call for her.

ZODIAC

CANCER (The Crab)

The crab in the constellation Cancancer was a friend of the sea monster Hydra. The tale of this crab appears in one of the twelve labors of Hercules, in which Hercules was to rid the world of the Hydra. As the many-headed Hydra grappled with Hercules, one after another of its fearsome heads was cut off until its situation became extremely perilous. Seeing the unconquerable Hydra in such desperate situation, the crab cried "My friend Hydra is in trouble!" and bravely waved its claws at the mighty Hercules. Before the greatest of the Greek heroes, however, the crab had no chance and was vanquished in an instant. Looking on, the gods were impressed with this display of friendship and added the crab to the constellations in the heavens.

ARIES (The Ram)

The King of Thebes had two children with his queen but his heart was captivated by the beautiful Ino, so he decreed a divorce and took Ino as his new queen. The step-mother Ino attempted to remove the prince Phrixus and the princess Helle by starting a false prophecy that they should be killed. "The poor harvest is a sign that Zeus is angry. These two must be put to the sword as a sacrifice to appease Zeus." The people were taken in by the false prophecy and tried to sacrifice the two children. Zeus took pity on the two children and saved them by sending a golden ram that had the power of flight. The golden fleece of this ram later became one of the treasures of the Kingdom of Colchis. It was this golden fleece that the Greek hero Jason sought when he set out on his epic journey, recounted in the tale of the Argo expedition.

TAURUS (The Bull)

One pleasant early afternoon, Europa the daughter of King Phoenix was plucking grass by the side of the river when a great snow-white bull appeared as if from nowhere, and approached her. Astonished by the beauty of the bull, she forgot her caution and sat on the bull's back. Immediately the bull sprang towards the sea with tremendous power and in an instant was galloping over the water as if it were land. The bull was actually Zeus, the King of the Gods, in another form. Zeus carried off Europa across the Mediterranean Sea to the Grecian island of Crete, where he married her. Ever since that time, the land to which Europa was carried by the bull has been known by the name 'Europe.'

GEMINI (The Twins)

The twins Castor and Pollux were the children of Zeus, the King of the Gods, and Leda the Queen of Sparta. The two were devoted friends, extremely brave, and together achieved great fame from their exploits on the famous Argo expedition and many other adventures. The twins were always helping each other. In one battle, Castor was mortally wounded and died. In his grief, Pollux tried to take his own life, However Pollux had inherited more of the blood of his father Zeus, and was therefore immortal. Looking on as Pollux cried "Let me go to my brother Castor," Zeus took pity and raised both twins into the sky. Ever since, they have stood as a symbol of friendship.

LEO (The Lion)

Hercules, the hero of many Greek myths, was commanded by the angry King Eurites to perform twelve perilous tasks, known as the Labors of Hercules. The lion represents the first of these dangerous feats. Hercules was ordered to get rid of the man-eating lion of the Forest of Nemea. Taking his bow and arrow and sword, he attacked the lion that appeared before him. His foe, however, was a supernatural lion with an immortal body that could not be wounded by arrows or swords. Hercules wrapped his arms around the neck of the lion and squeezed with all of his tremendous strength. The supernatural lion was no match for power of Hercules, and was slain. The constellation of the Lion was named in memory of this great feat of Hercules.

VIRGO (The Maiden)

Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, governed the fruits of the earth and had an only child, a beautiful daughter named Persephone. One day Persephone was picking flowers in the meadow, when suddenly the earth opened and Hades, the King of the Underworld appeared and carried her off in his black chariot. Demeter grieved for her beloved only daughter who had been taken away to the Underworld, and hid herself in a cave. Now that the goddess of the earth had hid herself away, no more grains and flowers could grow and the earth became barren as far as the eye could see. Zeus, the King of the Gods, saw this and commanded Hades to return Persephone to Demeter. agreed with great reluctance, but Persephone had already eaten part of a pomegranate while she was in captivity, and anyone who had tasted the food of the Underworld was doomed to live there. Forevre so it was decided that Persephone would live with her mother for half of the year, and return to the Underworld for the other half. This is how the seasons of the earth began.

LIBRA (The Scales)

The constellation Libra is said to be the scales with which Astraea, the goddess of justice, determined good and evil. Long ago, in the Golden Age of the world, the scales of the goddess Astraea always tipped in the direction of justice. Humans and animals lived happily, and there was eternal spring all of the year. Eventually the Silver Age arrived, an age in which the weak were oppressed by the strong. Gods and goddesses withdrew into heaven, their patience with humans exhausted. Astraea however remained among men, continuing to expound justice. With the coming of the copper age however, humans began to make war upon each other. The scales of Astraea continually tipped towards evil, and the goddess could no longer bear the ways of men and withdrew from the earth.

SCORPIO (The Scorpion)

Orion, the mighty hunter, was always boasting of his marksmanship. "Nothing in creation can stand up to me..." The gods and goddesses were pained by such talk, and one day Hera, the wife of the great Zeus, could no longer bear it. She released a scorpion on the forest path where Orion frequently walked as he boasted of his power. The scorpion stung Orion in the foot, and its venom spread through his body. In spite of all his strength, Orion soon breathed his last. Ever since then both Orion and the Scorpion have remained in the sky as enemies. As the Scorpion rises Orion sinks below the horizon, as if to flee in a never-ending celestial chase.

SAGITTARIUS (The Centaur)

The constellation Sagittarius has the shape of the mythical centaur, a creature in Greek mythology that had the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse. The race of centaurs were a rough and savage lot except for one named Chiron, who was taught by Apollo and Artemis the arts of music and medicine, hunting and prophecy, and went on to tutor the young heroes of Greece in many subjects. The wise Chiron was immortal, however this proved to be ruinous. Wounded by a stray poison arrow shot by the hero Hercules, his suffering was so great that Prometheus granted release from immortality so that he could die. The great Zeus was hurt by the death of Chiron and raised him to the skies as a constellation.

CAPRICORN (The Goat)

Do you know why the goat in the constellation Capricorn has the tail of a fish? Pan, the god of the forest, resembled a goat, was very skilled at playing the reed pipes. Pan spent his days singing, dancing, and living a cheerful existence. Once the gods were feasting on the banks of the river Nile in the land of Egypt. Pan, who loved everything lively, set out joyfully playing his reed pipes merrily and loudly when suddenly in burst the monster Teuphon bellowed "What is that terrible noise?" Startled, Pan tried to quickly change himself into a fish to get away. In his haste, his body turned into a fish but his head remained that of a goat. The gods laughed uproariously, and added his form to the constellations in the sky to commemorate the event.

AQUARIUS (The Water Carrier)

This constellation is in the shape of a young man carrying jug of water. The young man is Ganymede, a handsome youth who was a favorite of Zeus. Ganymede, a prince of Troy, was known for his beauty. Looking down on the earth from heaven, Zeus saw him as he was herding sheep and was pleased. Zeus turned himself into a great black eagle, flew down from heaven in one straight swoop and grabbed Ganymede, carrying him off to the palace of the gods. The King of Troy lamented the loss of his son, but Zeus appeared to him in a dream saying "Ganymede is living happily in the palace of the gods. Stop your lament and look up into the sky." When the king looked up, he saw the form of his beloved son shining in the constellation of the water carrier.

PISCES (The Fishes)

The two fish in the constellation Pisces are actually two well-known Greek gods in another form. Aphrodite (or Venus), the goddess of love and beauty and her child Eros (or Cupid) the god of infatuation were walking happily together, mother and child, along the banks of the river Euphrates. Suddenly there appeared the monster Teuphon, a notorious villain in Greek myths. Startled, the two sprang into the river, changed into fish, and swam away as fast as they could go. The goddess Athena saw them, and placed them in the heavens in the form of two fish linked by a ribbon.

The Story of Rapunzel

There once lived a man and a woman who always wished for a child, but could not have one.  These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen.  The garden was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs.  It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an witch, who had great power and was feared by all the world. 
One day the woman was standing by the window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most tasty rapunzel.  It looked so fresh and green that she longed for it and had the greatest desire to eat some.  This desire increased every day.  The woman knew that she could not get any of it and grew more pale and miserable each day.  
Her husband was worried about her and asked "What is wrong my dear?"
"Ah," she replied, "if I can't eat some of the rapunzel from the garden behind our house I think I shall die." 
The man, who loved her, thought, "Sooner than let my lovely wife die, I will bring her some of the rapunzel myself, no matter what the cost." 
In the twilight of the evening, he climbed over the wall into the garden of the witch, hastily grabbed a handful of rapunzel and took it to his wife.  She at once made herself a salad and ate it happily.  She, however, liked it so much -- so very much, that the next day she longed for it three times as much as before.  If he was to have any rest, her husband must once more descend into the garden.  In the gloom of evening, therefore, he set out again; but when he had climbed over the wall he was terribly afraid, for he saw the witch standing before him. 
"How dare you," she said with angry look, "sneak into my garden and steal my rapunzel like a thief?  You shall suffer for this!"
"Ah," the frightened husband answered, "please have mercy, I had to have the rapunzel.  My wife saw it from the window and felt such a longing for it that she would have died if she had not got some to eat." 
Then the witch allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him, "If this is true, I will allow you to take as much as you like, only I make one condition.  You must give me the baby daughter your wife will bring into the world; she shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother."  The man in his fear consented and when the baby was born the witch appeared at once, gave the child the name of Rapunzel and took the baby away with her.
Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child beneath the sun.  When she was twelve years old, the witch shut her into a tower, which lay in a forest.  The tower had no stairs or doors, but only a little window at the very top. When the witch wanted to go in, she stood beneath the window and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the witch she wound her braids round one of the hooks of the window, and then the hair fell down the side of the tower and the witch climbed up by it. After a year or two, it came to pass that the Prince rode through the forest and went by the tower.  He heard a song which was so lovely that he stood still and listened.  This was Rapunzel who in her loneliness passed her time singing.  The Prince wanted to climb up to her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found.  He rode home, but the singing had so deeply touched his heart, that every day he went out into the forest and listened to it.  
Once when he was standing behind a tree listening to Rapunzel's song, he saw the witch come and heard how she cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."

Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the witch climbed up to her.   "If that is the ladder by which one mounts, I will for once try my fortune," thought the Prince and the next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair."

Immediately the hair fell down and the Prince climbed up. At first Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such as her eyes had never seen, came to her; but the Prince began to talk to her quite like a friend and told her that his heart had been so stirred by her singing that it had let him have no rest.  Then Rapunzel lost her fear, and when he asked her if she would take him for her husband -- and she saw that he was kind and handsome, she said yes, and laid her hand in his. 
She said, "I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down.  Bring a bit of silk with you every time you come and I will weave a ladder with it.  When that is ready I will climb down and we shall escape together."  They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.  
The witch knew nothing of this, until once Rapunzel said in her distraction, "Oh my, you are so much heavier when you climb than the young Prince." 
"Ah! you wicked child," cried the witch "What do I hear thee say! I thought I had separated you from all the world but you have deceived me."
In her anger she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful hair, seized a pair of scissors -- and snip, snap -- cut it all off.  Rapunzel's lovely braids lay on the ground but the witch was not through.  She was so angry that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
The witch rushed back to the tower and fastened the braids of hair which she had cut off, to the hook of the window, and when the Prince came and cried,

"Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
Let down your hair,"

she let the hair down. The Prince climbed to the window, but he did not find his dearest Rapunzel above, but the witch, who gazed at him with a wicked and venomous look.  "Aha!" she cried mockingly, "You've come for Rapunzel but the beautiful bird sits no longer singing in the nest; the cat has got it and will scratch out your eyes as well.  Rapunzel is banished and you will never see her again!" 
The Prince was beside himself and in his despair he fell down from the tower.  He escaped with his life, but the thorns into which he fell pierced his eyes.  Then he wandered quite blind about the forest, ate nothing but roots and berries and did nothing but weep over the loss of his dearest Rapunzel. 
In this way, the Prince roamed in misery for some months and at length came to the desert where the witch had banished Rapunzel.  He heard a voice singing and it seemed so familiar to him that he went towards it.  When he approached, Rapunzel knew him and fell into his arms and wept.  
Two of her tears fell on his eyes and the Prince could see again.  He led her to his kingdom where he was joyfully received, and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and contented.

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