Who is bloody mary? where does this term come from? not the drink

Besides Queen Mary, it was also the name of a character in Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. Bloody Mary is the one singing.

Mary I of England, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aargon. I believe she was step sister to Elizabeth I

Bloody Mary was the nickname given to the Roman Catholic Queen Mary of England, because she caused many protestants to be killed.

Bloody Mary comes from an old folktale. According to the story, she is a woman who is covered with blood who was killed many years ago.

The explanation for how she got covered in blood varies. Some say that she fell on a wooden plank with nails in it, and the nails ripped her face apart. She is usually a child murderer, and she usually lives in the city where the story is being told. For example, if the story is being told in New York, the storyteller might say that Bloody Mary lived in New York many years ago, not far from here.

According to legend, if you stand in front of a mirror with the lights off and repeat the name "Bloody Mary" a certain amount of times, she will eventually appear in the mirror. The story varies on what she does next. Some say that she will scratch your face up so that it's just like her own bloody face. Others say that she will pull you into the mirror, or cut your face up with the mirror shards.

The story has a LOT of variation, and may actually be based on a real person. Fred Flintstone (one of the people who answered this question) states that Bloody Mary is named after Queen Mary of England. This may be true, but I don't know for sure.

Bloody Mary is a stupid bitch, who has no life what so ever. She came from her momma's stank tuna fish couchie. lol.