When I was young, we held seances whenever we had the chance. It didn’t have to be on or near Halloween. We usually went to Lori’s house, our friend who lived right across the street. She had a small fruit cellar in her basement that was jus the perfect place to light a candle, shut the door, and burn to death. But, we never dropped the candle and we never stopped chanting.
We really had no idea who the hell Mary Worth was, but we believed in her.
Tweens have no brains, they really don’t. There were usually four of us who held these seances. We would stand in a circle, shut the fruit cellar door, and slowly begin to chant into a mirror, I can’t remember for sure, but I think Lori put a mirror on one of the shelves, leaning it against the wall. You had to have a mirror, because Mary Worth was supposed to appear in it.
We would start the chant, always serious, because we knew this would work.
We would start with a whisper. “I believe in Mary Worth……I believe in Mary Worth….” I think that’s all we said. But, we said it over and over and over again, because that’s what you had to do if you wanted to bring her back. Those were the rules. I think that anywhere between the third and thirteenth chant, Mary Worth was supposed to appear in the mirror, looking all vengeful and malicious.
So, who was Mary Worth, you ask? Well, hell, I don’t know. So, I looked her up for your reading enjoyment. There are many different stories about Mary Worth. Some call her Bloody Mary. One account is that Mary was wrongly accused of killing her children. She went mad and commited suicide.
I honestly can not remember if we even knew the circumstances of “our” Mary. We just enjoyed scaring each other and occasionally getting locked in the fruit cellar. Lori’s mom would also at times don a mask and slowly open the door to scare us.
So, this Halloween, whatever you do, don’t repeat that phrase while standing in front of a mirror.
Unless of course, you want Mary Worth to appear, wondering who the hell you are.
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