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Check out Fate & Fabled here on @pbsstoried: https://youtu.be/yPyHKam0L-w Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, Bloody Mary and Ouija are scary and entertaining rites of passage for kids and teens to participate in. But do these games actually work? And why do we love to scare each other so much at sleepovers? Check out our sleepover pals' PBSDS shows: Dr. Joe Hanson's Be Smart @besmart, Dr. Erica Brozovsky's Otherwords on @pbsstoried & Dr. Alex Dainis on Reactions @ACSReactions ***** PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateStoried ***** Written and Hosted by: Dr. Emily Zarka Director: David Schulte Executive Producer: Amanda Fox Executive Producer: Dr. Emily Zarka Producer: Thomas Fernandes Editor/Animator: P.W. Shelton Editor/Animator: Steven Simone Illustrator: Samuel Allan Executive in Charge (PBS): Maribel Lopez Director of Programming (PBS): Gabrielle Ewing Additional Footage: Shutterstock Music: APM Music Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios. Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monstrumpbs 00:00 Intro 00:52 History of Sleepovers 01:33 Multi-colored Flames 02:26 Levitation Games 04:33 Rite of Passage 06:12 Ouija 07:47 Bloody Mary 08:27 More Ouija 11:07 Concentration 11:37 Conclusion ---------------------------- Bibliography Alpha Xi Delta. Vols. 3-4, 1906. Beccia, Carlyn. “The Secret History of Slumber Parties: How ‘Bloody Mary’ and Menstruation Go Hand-In-Hand.” Bust, May 11, 2023. https://bust.com/girls-sleepover-creepy-history/#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20earliest%20references,Personal%20and%20Local%E2%80%9D%20news%20item. Dawson, Mary. The Mary Dawson Game Book: A Manual of Original Games and Guessing Contests for Entertainments of Every Description and for All Ages. D. McKay, 1916. Dégh, Linda. Legend and Belief : Dialectics of a Folklore Genre. Indiana UP, 2001. Farris, Anelise. “Experimenting with the Occult: The Role of Liminality in Slumber Party Rituals.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural, vol. 6, no. 1, 2017, pp. 154–179. Ladies' Home Companion. Vol. 39, 1912. Maxwell, Anne. “For the Hostess: Several Smart Midwinter Affairs.” The Designer and the Woman’s Magazine.” Vol. 51, issue 3, January 1920, pp. 24. Morton, Lisa. Calling the Spirits; A History of Seances. Reaktion Books, 2020. Natale, Simone. Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. The Key: Official Organ of the Kappa Kappa Gamma. Vol. XXVIII, no. 1, February 1911. Tucker, Elizabeth. “Levitation Revisited.” Children’s Folklore Review, vol. 30, January 1, 2008, pp. 47-60.