Mother Shipton is a medieval witch who lived her entire life in England and is still one of the most mysterious and mysterious characters in British history. There are many rumors about her personality, the main legends were collected in parts by the historian Richard Head.
Shipton left behind eighteen predictions, and six of them have already come true. These are predictions of a global scale, because Mother could tell about a specific person without any special problems, because she saw through everyone, predicted the future fate and even the date of death.
The Prophetess lived in the small village of Nersborough. Many did not like her, as they considered her a witch, but at the same time, they often went to visit her to receive a prophecy. This was Mother Shipton's main source of income.
How did an orphan girl become a witch?
Ursula (that was the name of the witch) began to show her supernatural powers as an infant. And when the girl got older, inexplicable phenomena began to occur in the house: things disappeared, furniture moved by itself, strange sounds arose from the void, and so on.
At the age of 16, the girl had nothing left to do, and she fled from her native village to the forest, where she began to live in an abandoned forester's house. In an incomprehensible way, she managed to charm the carpenter Tobias Shipton, who, despite the persuasions of his relatives, married her. From that moment, Ursula began to write down her prophecies, and in the human world they began to call her a sorceress.
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Notable prophecies
Mother Shipton did not name specific dates in her prophecies, but she predicted a huge fire in London and saw the crystal house, which caused the outbreak of the Russian-Turkish war in 1851.
She also talked about the appearance of tobacco and potatoes in Europe, as well as about the struggle of women for their rights in the 20th century.
Even then, the witch knew that in the future there would be television, ships, planes and submarines.
She also predicted the current conflict in the Middle East, into which, according to the prophetess, all the powers of the world will be drawn.
Researchers of the life of a mysterious witch argue that only two prophecies related to environmental disasters have not come true so far.
While materials about the life of Mother Shipton are being studied, tourists rush to see the crypt and the witch's house, which, according to her instructions, will never be destroyed so that she could save people in case of disasters.