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Mother Shipton, or the medieval British witch, is one of most interesting personalities in the history of England. Still walks about her many legends that at one time the historian collected bit by bit Richard Head.
According to some scholars of Mother Shipton’s heritage, she was the greatest forecaster of her time, all in all left eighteen prophecies, sixteen of which are already come true. Moreover, you need to keep in mind the prophecies of world significance, since mother Shipton saw through every person through and through accurately tell his whole future fate, including date of death.
Her widow Agatha Soutail, who lived in small English, gave birth to her the village of Nersboro – a woman whom the inhabitants of the village did not like and considered a witch, although often used her services, say, fortunetelling. This Agatha and earned a living. Walked the girl widow, as rumors went, from hell, because before that he became visit at night someone horned and with a goat beard. Is not it it or not, but after childbirth Agatha immediately dies, and the girl very ugly was born: Ursula (so she was called a little later) had a huge mouth, a hooked nose and bulging eyes. Add to this acne all over the body – and a real toad!
The formation of a medieval witch – soothsayers
Ursula’s magical abilities were noticed by her guardian back in infancy, and when the girl began to grow up, then in the house where she was brought up, and the devil knows what happened at all: herself furniture moved to itself, objects disappeared, some unexplained phenomena … In short, at 16, the girl was forced run away from the village and settle in the abandoned house of the forester. Here somehow she seduced the handsome carpenter Tobias Shipton, who married this freak, despite all the entreaties of his relatives and loved ones. Here Ursula began to write down her prophecies, why and soon came to be known as a great sorceress.
No wonder that her “witchcraft tricks” acted a collective complaint to court, and Madame Shipton would certainly have landed on bonfire. But in court, Ursula colorfully described the fate of each accuser, and then with a laugh flew out the window. Servants of the Law were so shocked and scared by it that they left a sorceress Shipton alone.
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Despite the lack of exact dates, when and what will happen, mother Shipton (as she was called much later) predicted the great fire in London, the crystal house that will cause war 1851 between Russia and Turkey. She already in the XVI century knew about tobacco and potatoes that will arrive in Europe from America, about the fight 20th century women for their rights, on television, submarines and airplanes, like many other things that have come true with precision. Even the current war in the Middle East, which, as broadcast medieval witch, all world powers will be drawn in.
According to mother Shipton’s inheritance researchers, only two of her prophecies were fulfilled, both related to natural cataclysms. From the surface of the Earth, the witch wrote, the water will disappear resources, and new land will appear from the seabed. Many people think that mother Shipton had in mind Atlantis, whose rebirth in the future is entirely possible, as are the problems with fresh water on the planet.
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And while historians are wondering what will happen from what predicted by a medieval witch, tourists rush to visit the crypt and mother Shipton’s house, which supposedly, according to her instructions, never must not be destroyed so that it can keep people from coming disasters. Or maybe it’s just an ordinary legend supported by by locals in order to attract tourists …
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