Happy Halloween, Witches! Today we're discussing Mary Jane "Bricktop" Jackson, a New Orleans-based Civil War era prostitute and cold-blooded murderer, who loved to brawl and often used her custom-made knife to brutally stab men who crossed her. And because it's double-stuffed for Halloween, we also discussed the spooky historical origins of the Bloody Mary ritual!

INTRO - 23:00 | A Halloween Themed Intro, Deanna revisits Scream Queens, reading an article about a recent interview with Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell.

24:00 - 51:30 | Hannah ventures down to the big easy to dig up the bones of her person of the week, Mary Jane “Bricktop” Jackson.

51:30 - 52:30 | Some Music from F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu”

52:30 - END | Deanna crosses the pond in her ghost ship to find the origins of the “Bloody Mary” ritual and discovers her person of the week, Queen Mary the First.

Links:

Intro article: https://variety.com/video/horror-icons-jamie-lee-curtis-and-neve-campbell-compare-notes-on-their-reigns-as-scream-queens/
A Monstress Comes Of Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUbP2KVVl8&feature=emb_logo

Sources:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bloody-mary-story/ - David Mikkelson
https://allthatsinteresting.com/bloody-mary - Krissy Howard
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myth-bloody-mary-180974221/ - Meilan Solly
Wikipedia.org

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