Is this phrase correct: "None of Bloody Mary exists" ?

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If the phrase is not correct, what is the equivalent, which will not just plainly state that Bloody Mary does not exist, but will emphasise this fact (i.e. some idiom).
 

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Maybe "No any Bloody Mary exists"?
 

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A Bloody Mary does exist it is a type of cocktail contain amongst other ingredients tomato juice and vodka.
Bloody Mary is also one of the nicknames of Mary the First of England.

However I think you are talking of the legend of Bloody Mary the supernatural entity. I would say that there is definitely no such thing as the Blood Mary of urban myth.
 

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If you're talking about the legend, say "There is no Bloody Mary" or "There's/There was no such thing/person as Bloody Mary".
 

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Sorry, I forgot about the Bloody Mary drink. Perhaps Bloody Mary is a bad example, how about dwarfs?

Suppose, someone is outraged that you are talking to him about dwarfs and he is saying:

None of dwarfs exist at all!

Or perhaps he should say:

Dwarfs do not and have never existed!
 

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None of dwarfs exist at all!

Or perhaps he should say:

Dwarfs do not and have never existed!

He shouldn't use the first. The second is fine.
 

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The second is grammatically correct but untrue (bearing in mind that the current accepted term "little people" used to be "dwarf" or "midget").

The plural is "dwarves" in BrE.
 
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