Only two survive, one near her purported birthplace in Knaresborough and the other in Portsmouth. Mother Shipton died in 1561 or 1567. The British Library’s earliest listed publication about Mother Shipton is the anonymously penned 1641 The Prophesie of Mother Shipton in the raigne of King Henry the Eighth, foretelling the death of Cardinall Wolsey, etc., with fifteen subsequent texts in the seventeenth-century (including a play), and dozens more published in the intervening centuries. In short, Head rather cruelly makes clear what Mother Shipton looked like — a witch. Although little is known about her parents, legend has it that she was born during a violent thunderstorm in a cave on the banks of the River Nidd in Knaresborough. The booklet The Life and Prophecies of Ursula Sontheil better known as Mother Shipton (1920s, and repeatedly reprinted)[10] predicted the world would end in 1991. It is claimed that “Wars shall begin in the Spring, […] Much war to England it shall bring: […] Then shall the Ladies cry well-away, […] That ever we lived to see this day.”, Though written with a sense of melancholia, there is also a sentiment of inevitability and the accurate foresight of coming civil war (though written after the Bishop’s War had already seen Scotland and England at blows). Moving from verse to prose, Mother Shipton prophecies that despite the coming strife, ultimately “there shall never be warfare again, nor any more Kings or Queens,” a startlingly radical conclusion written some eight years before Charles I would place his neck on the block. Mother Shipton’s Cave is said to be the oldest tourist attraction in England and it remains popular to this day. Head then goes on for several sentences describing said nose in magnificently baroque prose, its “many crooks and turnings,” and its adornment with “many strange pimples of divers colours, as red and blue mixed, which, like vapours of brimstone, gave such a lustre to the affrighted spectators in the dead time of the night, that one of them confessed several times, that her nurse needed no other light” to assist her in the birth of the prophetess. [6] It gave her birthplace as Knaresborough, Yorkshire, in a cave now known as Mother Shipton's Cave. The scouring of prophecies, pamphlets, letters, marginalia, ephemera, and almanacks of those prophetic mages is driven by the desire for a radical, sweet empathy imparted to us by our long-dead ancestors.

All of her life has been connected with Mother Shipton’s Cave – the site where she practiced her craft , learned about flowers and herbs , searched for visions and, intentionally or not, created a mysterious legend about herself. Details of her biography, her writing, and her very countenance are uncertain.

She was buried in unconsecrated ground, perhaps near Clifton. Horror Cinema and the Mad Science of Nature, Introduction to the Supernatural Victorian Gothic Literature, The Rise of Vampires and Werewolves in Hollywood Cinema, Gothic: New Directions in Media and Popular Culture, Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction, The Esoteric and Occult Appeal of Neopaganism.

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