Mystic snippets
Sep 03, 2019
3 minutes
Words: Monica Cafferky
WHAT A LEGEND!
Mother Shipton was a 16th century soothsayer and prophetess, born in around 1488, who was said to have lived in a cave in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, which can still be visited today (it’s famous for its petrifying well, which slowly turns any objects placed in it into stone).
She was alleged to have been terrifyingly ugly, but despite her preference for living underground and her hideous visage, nonetheless married a
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