MOTHER SHIPTON, INVESTIGATED *End Times

From the editor:This critical investigation of the Mother Shipton literature is published early in 1881, the year in which, according to that cele­brated Yorkshire prophetess, the world is to come to an end. The best known of the prophecies attributed to her, is the following: " The world to an end shall come, In eighteen hundred and eighty one."

This, and other prophecies, said to have been copied from records of unimpeachable antiquity in the British Museum Library, which prophecies in some cases. have been reproduced in alleged facsimile, have raised curiosity even in the scientific and sceptical mind, and fanned the flame of imagination in the mind idealistic, as to what amount of truth, or error, or deception, may be at the root of the matter. These questions it is my object to attempt to solve by reference to papers of true antiquity in the national possession.

Prophecies about the end of the world have always had more or less influence. Whiston predicted that the world would be destroyed on the 13th October, 1736, and crowds of people left London, to see, from neighbouring fields, the destruction of the city, which was to be ' the beginning of the end."

Numbers of fanatics in Europe, predicted the end of the world in 999. " The scene of the last judgment was expected to be at Jerusalem. In the year 999, the number of...

Publisher: Holmes Publications [in a scholarly exposition of topic, in an academic fashion, authoritative].
Pages: 32
Special Interest: End Times, History, Divination, Magick, Occult, WitchCraft, Persecusion, Secret Orders.

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