Ursula Southeil, popularly known as Mother Shipton, was an English soothsayer and prophetess according to English folklore.
An 1804 portrait of Shipton with a monkey or familiar, taken from an oil painting dating from at least a century earlier
An engraving of Ursula Southheil (Mother Shipton) from the title page of 1686 book The Strange and Wonderful World of Mother Shipton
Mother Shipton's Cave
A Mother Shipton moth, with hag-like markings on its wings
The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. Constructed from local oolitic limestone, the three monuments, now known as the King's Men and the Whispering Knights in Oxfordshire and the King Stone in Warwickshire, are distinct in their design and purpose. They were built at different periods in late prehistory. During the period when the three monuments were erected, there was a continuous tradition of ritual behaviour on sacred ground, from the 4th to the 2nd millennium BCE.
Part of the King's Men stone circle, one of three monuments at the site
The Rollright Stones in 1645, with the King's Men in the middle, the Whispering Knights at the bottom right, and the King Stone at the middle right
The Whispering Knights, 2011.
The King's Men circle in 2011
