"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

A childish superstition found in our society is about a woman named Bloody Mary. The story is that if you go into a bathroom and turn off the lights, and say "Bloody Mary" thirteen times, standing in front of a mirror, at the stroke of midnight, Bloody Mary herself will come out of the mirror and kill you.
This superstition is very different from most of the ones that we have examined in TFA. I would assume that mostly only children believe or even consider the Bloody Mary superstition. However, the Ibo's superstitions are widely trusted, and are quite often taken very seriously. …