BLOODY MARY LEGEND

BLOODY MARY LEGEND
Which brother would you choose?
BLOODY MARY LEGEND
Text 1
As best anyone can tell, the Bloody
Mary legend and its most common variants ("Hell
Mary," "I Believe in Mary Worth," "I Believe in
Mary Whales," etc.) date from the early 1960s.
Like so many folk rituals and belief tales, its exact
origin is impossible to pin down with much
specificity. Folklorists didn't begin recording
examples of it until the 1970s.
That said, there is a body of myth and
superstition attributing magical and/or divinatory
properties to mirrors dating back to ancient times.
Such traditions typically include elements of
danger and foreboding. The most familiar of these
lingering into modernity is the centuries-old
superstition that breaking a mirror brings bad luck.
The idea that one can foretell the future by peering
into a mirror is even older, described in the Bible (I
Corinthians 13) as "see[ing] through a glass,
darkly." There are mentions of looking-glass
divination in Chaucer's Squire's Tale (c. 1390),
Spenser's The Faerie Queen (1590), and
Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606), among other early
literary sources.
1. De acordo com o texto ao lado, é correto
afirmar que:
a)
a lenda de bloody Mary possui três
variantes apenas.
b)
os folcloristas não haviam registrado
qualquer coisa sobre a lenda até a
década de 60.
c)
a lenda de Bloody Mary é a mais
conhecida superstição envolvendo
espelhos.
d)
geralmente são atribuídos aos
espelhos elementos de perigo e de
pressentimento.
e)
Bloody Mary é citada em obras de
famosos escritores, como William
Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer e
Edmund Spenser.
Summoning visions
A particular form of divination associated with Halloween
in the British Isles entailed gazing into a mirror and
performing a nonverbal ritual to summon a vision of one's
future betrothed. This example is from the Poems of
Robert Burns, published in 1787:
2. De acordo com o o fragmento do livro de Robert
Burns, é correto afirmar que:
Take a candle, and go alone to a looking glass; eat an
apple before it, and some traditions say, you should comb
your hair all the time; the face of your conjugal
companion, to be, will be seen in the glass, as if peeping
over your shoulder.
b)
a)
c)
d)
Another example of mirror divination, in this case
accompanied by ritual chanting, appears in the fairy tale
"Snow White," as told by the Brothers Grimm in 1857
(trans. by D.L. Ashliman):
She was a beautiful woman, but she was proud and
arrogant, and she could not stand it if anyone might
surpass her in beauty. She had a magic mirror. Every
morning she stood before it, looked at herself, and said:
Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?
To this the mirror answered:
You, my queen, are fairest of all.
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As everyone who grew up reading "Snow White" (or
watching the animated Disney version) knows, the
mirror-obsessed queen was ultimately destroyed by
her own vanity, and it is in this and similar
cautionary tales that we see basic elements of the
Bloody Mary ritual emerge.
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/horrors/a/bloody_
mary.htm
e)
O ritual executado no texto de Burns é invocado
através de um cântico.
Para que o ritual dê certo, é preciso que alguém
urine sobre os ombros de quem invoca o espelho.
Para ver o futuro pretendente através de um
espelho, a pessoa precisa pentear o cabelo sem
parar, além de outros requisitos.
O ritual citado por Burns faz parte das tradições
do Halloween nos Estados Unidos.
Uma lanterna pode ser usada no lugar da vela.
3. De acordo com o conto de fadas “Branca de Neve”, é
correto afirmar que:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Foi escrito por D.L. Ashliman em 1857.
Branca de Neve tinha um espelho mágico.
O ritual executado pela rainha diante do espelho é
semelhante ao do poema de Robert Burns.
a rainha era orgulhosa e arrogante, mesmo sendo
extremamente feia.
O espelho era invocado pela rainha sempre pela
manhã.
Text 2
Bloody Mary is a folklore legend consisting of
a ghost or spirit conjured to reveal the future.
She is said to appear in a mirror when her
name is called multiple times. The Bloody
Mary apparition may be benign or malevolent,
depending on historic variations of the legend.
The Bloody Mary appearances are mostly
"witnessed" in teenage group participation
games, often as part of a game of truth or dare.
(…)
Bloody Mary allegedly appears as a corpse, a
witch or a ghost; sometimes covered in blood.
The lore surrounding the ritual (if she is
summoned properly) states that participants
may endure the apparition screaming at them,
cursing them, strangling them, stealing their
body or soul, drinking their blood, or
scratching their eyes out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(fo
lklore
4. Responda em português:
a) O que é Bloody Mary?
Uma lenda folclórica que consiste
em um fantasma ou espírito conjurado para
revelar o futuro.
b) Como ela é chamada (conjurada, invocada)?
Ao chamá-la muitas vezes diante de
um espelho.
c) Quem é que mais invoca Bloody Mary e por
quê?
Grupos de adolescentes , como
parte de um jogo de verdade ou desafio.
d) De que maneira Bloody Mary pode aparecer
para suas vítimas?
Como um cadáver, uma bruxa ou
um fantasma.
e) O que ela pode fazer com eles? Gritar,
amaldicoá-los, estrangulá-los, roubar seus
corpos ou almas, ou arrancar seus olhos.
Dean: Do I look like Paris
Hilton?
• Said while Sam is filming
Dean with a camcorder.
Most likely Dean was
making a reference to
Hilton's infamous sex video,
which made the rounds on
the internet. It's also
perhaps a bit of meta, as
Hilton and Jared Padalecki
worked together in the film
House of Wax.
• Ironically four years later
Paris Hilton appeared in
5.05 Fallen Idols.
5. No episódio assistido, Dean
faz uma brincadeira com a
“atriz” Paris Hilton. Quando
ele faz isso e por quê?
Quando seu irmão Sam está
filmando –o com uma câmera.
Provalmente por causa de um
vídeo de sexo, onde a atriz era
a protagonista, que foi
veículado na Internet.
Eye Of The Tiger
Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on
my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
So many times, it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of
the past
You must fight just to keep them alive
It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill
of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his
prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of
the tiger
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=E2fUjUGE47g