Mother Shipton
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Ursula Southeil; also variously spelt as Southill, Soothtell, Sontheil, or Sonthiel, 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
Mother Shipton's Cave
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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. The latter is the oldest tourist attraction to cha
Mother Shipton
…One of the most notable editions of her prophecies was published in 1684. It gave her birthplace as Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in a cave now known as Mother Shipton's Cave. The book reputed Shipton to be hideously ugly, and that she had married Toby Shipton, a local carpenter, near York in 1512, and told fortunes and made…
A statue of Mother Shipton in Mother Shipton's Cave
Objects hung in the falling water of the petrifying well at Mother Shipton's Cave