The Legend Of Quote By Elizabeth Clare

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Everywhere around the world there are legends. Legends are a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated. Legends take literally seconds to spread around the world and hundreds believe either because we want to believe something so entertaining is actually real in our world. Or maybe its because were naive. We all believe that they are fake but what if they’re not?

“Everything you’ve heard, about monster, about nightmares, legends whispered around campfires… All the stories are true. (Quote by Cassandra clare)” Well let’s decide if that is true today. The legend i want to tackle today is the one everyone's heard at least a million times and always brush it off because it seems as though its not true. Or is it? Alligators in the sewers of New York.

The legends all started in 1935 when a document …show more content…

Though the number of victims she had was never revealed, in her trial the number of victims cited was 650 but was never backed up with further proof. But there were; over 300 witnesses and survivors, Physical evidence, and horribly mutilated dead, dying and imprisoned girls found during her arrest. She never faced trial because of her family’s influence but was imprisoned 1609 of december in a windowless solitary confinement room until she died 5 years later.

Mary Worth was a witch that lived on the Old Wagon Road in Chicago during the civil war. They say she kidnapped runaway slaves and used them for dark rituals. Eventually the locals decided to do something and burned Mary at the stake. She is said to haunt the land her barn was. Houses that were built in the exact location of the barn has burned down.

There have been many theories as to where the origins of Bloody Mary came from none have been confirmed but this is a great legend that will be around for ages to come. Scaring every child for centuries to