Old Mother Shipton - 'Britain's Nostradamus'

OLD MOTHER SHIPTON

Posted by Jon King on Dec 05, 2008

Tagged with: mystery, nostradamus, old mother shipton, prophecy, psychic

‘When pictures seem alive with movements free, When boats like fishes swim beneath the sea; When men like birds shall scour the sky, Then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die.’

The woman who would become known as Old Mother Shipton (1488-1561) can be best described as Britain’s Nostradamus, and her predictions of things to come are perhaps the most accurate predictions ever made, if indeed they were made by her.

Historians today argue that many of Mother Shipton’s best-known prophecies were penned by other authors after her death, but even so, what are we to make of the above verse, taken from The Last Prophecy, which was certainly compiled no later than the 18th century and purports to describe the world at the time of its destruction and rebirth.

Even if Mother Shipton herself did not write this prophecy, who in the 16th, 17th or even the 18th century could have foreseen the invention of television, submarines and aircraft, as clearly depicted in the verse?

Personally I tend to think there might be more to Old Mother Shipton’s prophetic dexterity than meets the eye.

Certainly if she was able to foresee these and other inventions so accurately, as well as important historical events, perhaps we should treat her a tad more seriously when she speaks of ‘mighty wars’ being planned around the time that television is invented, and great floods and earthquakes that will destroy the earth as we know it.

Is it possible she had a mystic eye on the year 2012 AD?

In any event, it seems Old Mother Shipton wasn’t all doom and gloom. Her vision of the new world — which she says will rise up out of the oceans following the destruction of the old one — is in fact a positive and enlightening one.

’...The land that rises from the sea, Will be dry and clean and soft and free, Of mankind’s dirt and therefore be, The source of man’s new destiny.’

Conscious Ape

OLD MOTHER SHIPTON

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