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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.
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 ]
"Petrified" teddy bears in the waterfall at Mother Shipton's Cave. The steadily-flowing water is rich in calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate, which crystallises on objects and gradually hardens them. A petrifying well is a well or other body of water which gives objects a stone-like appearance.
The first of them is a professional poker player, John Oakhurst, who has won large amounts from those on the secret committee. On his way out of town, he is joined by two women, the Duchess and Mother Shipton, and Uncle Billy, the town drunk and a suspected robber.
Mother Shipton is a mostly mythical character, who supposedly foretold the death of Cardinal Wolsey in 1530. [2] Charles Hindley, a nineteenth-century bookseller, created a prophetic poem that he claimed to be by Shipton. [9] This poem told of "Carriages without horses" and air planes, as well as predicting the end of the world in 1881. [10]
Sights in the town include the remains of Knaresborough Castle, the Courthouse Museum in the castle grounds, Mother Shipton's Cave, the House in the Rock, St Robert's Cave (dating from the Middle Ages), and the railway viaduct over the River Nidd. The town crier in the market place (2018)
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
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 ...