MOTHER SHIPTON'S PROPHECIES

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 257, 10 November 1939, Page 2

MOTHER SHIPTON'S PROPHECIES

(By Courtesy ol' J.. Jones) . These verses will be familiar to somo of our readers, and should be of interest to us all as wo are living in the very days of the "things which she prophesied. Mother .Shipton was not considered to have been inspired by some, but her foresight of the present day customs of our womenfolk seem to point conclusively to inspiration. She foresaw railway trains, tunnels, iron ships, submarines, aeroplanes, motor-cars, the Civil War-in North America, and she used the common term “the States.” She foresaw the great earthquakes that we have seen fulfilled up to date, coming great "wars, and the final tribulation. Slid brings nothing new t<> light, Imt- brings out uiimentioned detail in the Prophetic. World. Mother Shipton lived nearly 560 years ago. She was horn in Norfolk and tilled at Clifton, Yorkshire, 1149 A.D. Those conversant with history marvel at her accurate forecast of future events.

“A carriage without a horse shall go, Disaster fill the world with woe; In London, Primrose Hill shall he. It’s centre hold a Bishop’s See. Around the world men’s thoughts shall Hy, Quick as the twinkling of an eye. And waters shall grenj; wonders de-l-few strange, and yet ii shall come true.

Then upside down the world .shall lit', And gold found at Die root of tree; Thro’ tow’ring hills proud man shall

ride, No horse or ass move by his side. Beneath tin', waters man shall walk; Shall ride, shall sleep,.shall even talk; And in the air man shall be seen, In white, in black, as well as green. A great man then shall come and go, For prophesy declares it so. In water iron shall float As ease as a wooden boat. Gold shall lie found in stream or stone, In land that is yet unknown. Water and tire shall wonders'sfto, And England shall admit a Jew. The Jew that once was hold in scorn Shall of a Christian then, he born. ' A house of glass shall then come to pass In England—hut alas, alas! A war will follow with the work Where dwells the Pagan and Liu- Turk. The States will lock in fiercest .strife, And seek to take each other’s life; When North shall thus divide the South The eagle builds in lion’s mouth. Then tax and blood and cruel war Shall come to every humble clour. Three times shall sunny, lovely I? lance Be led to play a bloody dance; Before the people shall he free. Three tyrant rulers shall she see: Each sprung from different dynasty. Three, rulers,' in succession he— Then, when the fiercest light is done. England! and France shall he as one. The British olive next slmll twine In marriage, with the German vine. Men walk beneath and over stream— Fulfilled shall he our strangest dreams. All England’s sons that * plough the laud Shall oft: he seen with Book in ha nil. The poor shall now most wisdom know, And water wind .where corn doth grow; Great houses stand in far-flung vale. All covered o’er with snow and hail. And now a word in uncouth rhyme. Of what shall he in future time : For, in those wondrous far-off days The women shall adopt a> craze To di ess like- men and trousers wear, And cut off their locks of hair. They’ll ride astride with brazen brow, As witches do on broom sticks now. Then love shall die and marriage cease, \ ll d nations wane as babies decrease. The wives shall fondle cats and dogs,

And men live much the same as hogs. Ip nineteen hundlred and twenty-six.. Build houses light of straw and xt)Lcks„ For then shall mighty wars he planned.: And fire and sword shall sweep the land. But those who live the century through. Tn fear and trembling this will do. Flee to the mountains and the dens, To hog and forest and wild lens, — For storms will rage and oceans roar. When Gabriel stands on sea mini shore; And, ns lie blows his wondrous horn, Old worlds shall die and new he horn. ,,