Is Bloody Mary in Little Fears? She seems to be a rather pervasive character. Heck, when I was in the 3rd and 4th grade, older students would hold younger kids down and "put them in a trance" by making them stare at the sky. The stated intention of these trances was to make the children meet Bloody Mary - who in our own little world was the ghost of a nurse who died in the school in WWI. (The school was supposedly a converted WWI hospital.)
I've since heard the name and variations on the myth in a number of places - most common of course being the "Say Bloody Mary three times in front of a mirror in a dark room and she'll come and kill you" story.
Speaking of Little Fears, I was wondering if another edition was planned or something? The LGS hasn't stored it for quite awhile and I was wondering why...
I'm gonna go read that story now
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While I was unpacking all my GM toys the players were gorging themselves on cheese dip and chips. By the time play started one of them was nearly asleep in a post-carbs bliss-out, while another player lay clutching his stomach and moaning and a third gave himself over to uncontrollable release of ass-gas which clearly defied the Geneva convention. - Scorpio Rising
Originally posted by Max S. That's some really neat stuff.
Makes me wonder if it's an April Fool's thing.
I don't think so - it's five years old, so far as I can tell. It also doesn't smack of a newspaper April Fool's joke - in that, well, it's not very funny.
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Originally posted by Levekius Speaking of Little Fears, I was wondering if another edition was planned or something? The LGS hasn't stored it for quite awhile and I was wondering why...
Little Fears is still available from the distributors and Wizard's Attic. As far as a second edition, it's always a possibility.
Has anyone ever read or heard of anything else like this article? It's five years old at this point, and has gotten around enough that Clive Barker has optioned a script based off the article for a movie (pretty much the only thing I could turn up on it).
I mean, this seems like a bonanza to the field of folklore, there should be papers galore on this stuff. Are there? I also couldn't find anything else on the subject from Lynda Evans, the author of the piece. The rest of her beat (as available on the web), appears to be related to investigating Washington banking commitees, though related in some ways
She also seems to have won an alternative news award for a piece entitled "Death in the Sand", but I didn't find a copy of that online.
So are there authors who have written about this kind of thing? Not the individual parts (like La Llorona) but the idea of kids having such a complex shared alternative set of stories?
P.S. I'm not saying this couldn't happen. And I'm not trying to whitewash it because it's an unpleasant read. I'm just suspicious because its the same article, again and again.
Little Fears is still available from the distributors and Wizard's Attic. As far as a second edition, it's always a possibility.
You big teaser
With my freaking luck, the day I'm going to buy it, I will come home and find out you just announced a super-mega-hardcover-work-of-art-limited-get-it-while-it-last-edition
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While I was unpacking all my GM toys the players were gorging themselves on cheese dip and chips. By the time play started one of them was nearly asleep in a post-carbs bliss-out, while another player lay clutching his stomach and moaning and a third gave himself over to uncontrollable release of ass-gas which clearly defied the Geneva convention. - Scorpio Rising
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