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Who was Mother Shipton?
This seeress must be a hoax. After all the world did not come to an end as her muse stated.
"The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty one"
Did anything that could have ended the world happen in 1881 has the poem of Ursula Shipton suggests ?
The story of this Yorkshire seeress begins in the mid 1400's. It's a legend or myth but even after her suspected lifespan of c. 1488 to 1561 ends Shipton's words continue to echo.
W H Harrison, in 1881, writes a book called Mother Shipton Investigated in which he states that publishers, usually of cheap tabloid type pamphlets and almanacs, had been printing stories of the prophetess of Yorshire for no less than 200 years.
Since then the world has continued the same pattern of entertaining or writing stories of doom for the earth and it's inhabitants according to Ursula Sontheil.
She had a suspiciously strange birth.
Solomon Shipton and his wife died leaving behind a daughter named Agatha.
Agatha Shipton, was living in poverty in 1486 in Naseborough. According to one legend Agatha made a pact with the devil.
Harrison describes it thus.
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Allured by all these promises "she condescended to all the Devil would have her do. Whereupon he bid her to say after him, in this manner:
Raziel ellimiham irammish zirigai Psonthonphanchia Raphael elhaveruna tapino-tambecaz mitzphecat jarid cuman hapheah Gabriel Heydonturris dungeonis philomostarkes sophecord hankim.
After she had repeated these words after him, he pluckt her by the Groin, and there immediately grew a Tet......
....in course of time her hellish offspring came into the world... |
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Harrison goes on to describe that has the bond between the Devil and Agatha grew so did her clairvoyant and esoteric powers. So much so that no one dared persecute her and mostly kept their distance.
The infant was morose. Baby Shipton's nose was long and disproportionate. Anyone who witnessed her presence felt the dead time of the night. So ghastly was she that she was left in the care of religious attendants. Often her only visitor was her father but not has a man but as an animal.
As she grew in age it became obvious to her attendents that she'd inherited the gift of prophecy also.
As an adult she became a fortune teller and mystic seer who was sought out by all classes of people. Some of Mother Shipton's clients included King Henry the Eight, Cardinal Wolsey, and other dignitaries.
As legends would have it there are more than one version of the comings and goings of this Yorkshire prophetess.
Another story begins about the same way except for the family name at birth.
Agatha gave birth to the babe in a cave in Knaresborough. The cave is now a tourist attraction called Mother Shipton's Cave. Agatha's daughter was born with the name Ursula Southeil or Sontheil, or Southill, or Southtell....
Ursula took on a husband and her married name was Ursula Shipton.
Who was Toby Shipton ?
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