EPISODE · Feb 15, 2022 · 25 MIN
Did Mother Shipton Predict the Internet?
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Her real name was Ursula Southeil, but she was known about town as Mother Shipton (and also “Hag Face”). She was believed to be the love child of a 15-year-old girl and the devil, himself. She was known as a powerful prophetess. While some scholars have argued that she a work of fiction, there are those, however, that argue she was an actual person, with her story embellished through local tradition into a folk legend. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mother Shipton prophecized the world would end in 1881. Guess she got that one wrong. This is the story of a shunned woman who was able to predict the future, and became known as Knaresborough’s Prophetess.
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