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  2. Mother Shipton - Wikipedia

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    Mother Shipton was born Ursula Southeil or Sonthiel, in 1486 or 1488 (though some sources claim she was born as early as 1448) [11] to 15-year-old Agatha Soothtale, allegedly in a cave outside the town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire.

  3. Mother Shipton's Cave - Wikipedia

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    Mother Shipton's Cave (or "Old Mother Shipton's Cave") is at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, near the River Nidd. Nearby is a petrifying well , also known as a dropping well. [ 1 ] The latter is the oldest tourist attraction to charge a fee in England, and has been operated since 1630. [ 2 ]

  4. List of prostitutes and courtesans - Wikipedia

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    Agatha - English prostitute, mother of Mother Shipton; Basileia (Ancient Greece) - in Pandemos, this goddess was mainly a goddess for prostitutes or courtesans [5] Bebhinn (Celts of the British Isles) - the goddess of pleasure; Naamah (Hebrews) - an angel of prostitution, one of the succubus mates of the demon Samael in Zoharistic Qabalah

  5. Knaresborough - Wikipedia

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    Ursula Southeil (ca.1488–1561), known as Mother Shipton, a medieval seer, may have been born in a cave south of the town. [38] Robert Byerley (1660–1714), soldier and politician, lived at Goldsborough Hall; Eugene Aram (1704-1759), scholar and murderer lived here. [39]

  6. Rollright Stones - Wikipedia

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    A king riding across the county with his army was accosted by a local witch called Mother Shipton. [31] She said to him: Seven long strides thou shalt take, says she

  7. The Outcasts of Poker Flat - Wikipedia

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    Looking around, he realizes that Uncle Billy has fled with the group's horses and mules. They are all now forced to wait out the storm with provisions that will likely only last for another 10 days. After a week in the cabin, Mother Shipton dies, having secretly and altruistically starved herself in order to give her rations to Piney. Oakhurst ...

  8. Callistege mi - Wikipedia

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    Callistege mi, the Mother Shipton moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was classified by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759, and is also known under the name of Euclidia mi . [ 2 ] In Finnish it is known as piirtoyökkönen and in German as Scheck-Tageule .

  9. Richard Head - Wikipedia

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    The life and death of Mother Shipton being not only a true account of her strange birth and most important passages of her life, but also all her prophesies, now newly collected and historically experienced from the time of her birth, in the reign of King Henry the Seventh until this present year 1667, containing the most important passages of ...