MOTHER SHIPTON

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 6

MOTHER SHIPTON

- — o ACCURATE PROPHECIES 11 ENGLAND AND FRANCE AS ONE? r _ Prophecies made about 500 years ' ago by a woman known as Mother Shipton are decidedly interesting in ~ the light of recent world events^ * Mother Shipton was born in Nors ford and died at Clifton, Yorkshire, 1449 A.D, Those conversant with history marvel at her accurate forecast of future events. * Here is the forecast:—■ 1 2 A carriage without horses shall go, t Disaster fill the world with woe; ; In London, Primrose Hill shall be, 5 It's centre hold a Bishop's See. . Around the world men's thoughts > shall fly, : Quick as the twinkling of an eye. . And waters shall great wonders do— How strange and yet it shall come [ true. Then upside down the world shall be, And gold found at the root of tree; , Thro' tow'ring hills proud men shall ride, No horse nor ass move by his side. Beneath the water men shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep and even talk; . And in the air, men shall be seen, In white in black as well as green. A great man then shall come and go For Prophecy decides it so* In w r ater iron then shall float, As easy as a wooden boat. Good shall be found in stream or stone, In land that is as yet unknown. And England shall admit a few. Water and fire shall wonders do. The few that once were held in scorn, Shall of a Christian then be born., A house of glass shall come to pass Im England—but alasj, atas! A war shall follow with the work, Where dwells the Pagan & the Turk. The States will look in fierce strife, And seek to take each otlierls life; When North shall thus divide the South, The Ea£le builds in Lion's mouth. Then tax and blood and cruel war, Shall cclme to every humble door. Three times shall sunny lovely France Be led to play a bloody dancer Before the people shall be free, Three tyrant rulers shall she seo Three rulers,, in succession b— Each spring from different dynasty; Then when the fiercest fight is done, England and France shall be as one. The British olive shall next twine, In marriage with the German vine. Men walk beneath and over streams, Fulfilled shall be our strangest dreams, All England's sons that plough the land, Shall oft be seen with book in hand. The poor shall now most wisdom know, And wind where corn doth grow; Great houses stand in far-flung vale J All covered o'er with snow and hail. * And now a word in uncouth rhyme, Of what shall in future time;" For in those wondrous far-off days The women shall adopt a craze To dress like men and trousers wear, And cut off their locks of hair. The3 r 'll ride astride with brazen brow As witches do oil broomsticks now. Then love shall die and marriage cease. And nations wane as babes decrease. The wives shall fondle cats and dogs, And men live much the same as hogs. In nineteen hundred and twenty-six Build houses high of straw ajnd sticks For then shall mighty wars be planned, And fire and sword shall sweep the land. For those who live the century through, In fear and trembling this will do. Flee to the mountains and the dens. To bog and forest and wild fens, For storms shall rage and oceans roar. When Gabriel stands on sea and shore; And as he blows his wondrous horn, Old worlds shall die and new be born.