Rollright Stones
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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 oolit
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
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.
Rollright Stones
…stones. A rhyming version was reported by William Camden in 1610. A king riding across the county with his army was accosted by a local witch called Mother Shipton. She said to him: Seven long strides thou shalt take, says she And if Long Compton thou canst see, King of England thou shalt be…
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