Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1881-01-24
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MOTHER SYMPTOMS PROPHECY.
To the Editors of the Journal.


l think that there are many credu-
lous people who are more or less
anxiousIy and curiouslv awaiting the devel-
opement of Mother Shiptons Prophecy for
1881. when. THE world unto an end shall
come" and think when taken in connection
with the predictions of modern astronomers,
that there seems tu be a strange sort of
horoScopy about the matter, which must at
feet people, not over CredulouS, i'll some de-
gree. who have not the real facts in connec-
ton with this remarkable production of
Mother Shipton," and. while they NAV not
and probably do not think that the old lady
could see 50 clearly through the events of
800 wears in advance of her own dav as TO be
able To predict with such wonderful exactness
as she is conceded TO have done. Yet they
allow il to have a depressing effect upon
them. ! know this to be in some cases,
and particularly with very thoughtful and
weak nerved young people. Now while it is
true that Mother Shinton' was veritable
person and lived more than 800 yaars ago,
and while il is also true that she predicted"
future events while she lived, yet it is quite as
true that she was Il crazy old fool whose
predictions" were mere tumbling together
of meaningless sentences having no refer
renee whatever to the great events which
have transpired in the time since she was
upon the earth.
The prophecy which has gone the rounds of
the press and been counted as her production.
was written by Charles lIindley in 1862, and
by him falsely ascribed % her in order that
he might make a little money out of the sale
of his book as he himself confessed in 1873.
and SO all this talk of Mother Shiptons
prophecy" is as silly as the predictions of
Josh Billings Almanax.
The facts from which | have drawn these
statements are to be seen in a lengthy article
in the San Francisco Call of January 6, 1881, g.,
and they publish in connection with it the
..Prophecy of Charles Hindley.' which has
been credited to the old lady and is as
follows:
A house of glass shall come to pass
In England-but alas
War will follow with the work
In the land of the Pagan and Turk.
Aud State and State in fierce strife
Will seek each others life
But when the North shall divide the South,
An eagle shall build In the lions mouth
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Primrose Hill in London shall he.
Around the world thoughts shall hv
In the twinkling of an eye.
Water shall vet more wonders do,
Now strange, yet shall be true.
The world upside down shall be
And gold found at the root of tree;
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse be- 10y his side,
Under water men shall walk,
shall ride. shall creep, shall talk,
In the air men shall be- seen,
In white, in black in green.
Iron in the water shall float
As easy as an open boat;
Gold shall be found mid stone,
In a land that's now not known;
Fire and water shall wonders do,
England shall at last admit jew;
The jew that was held in scorn,
Shall of Christian be borne and born.
Three times three shall ordy France
BE led to dance bloody dance
Before her people shall be free.
Three fyrant rulers shall she see;
Three times the people rule alone,
Three times the people hope is gone:
Three rulers in succession see
Each spring from different dynasty.
Then shall the worser fight be DONE
England and France shall be
All Engand's sons that plough the land.
Shall be seen book In hand,
Learning shall so ebb and flow,
The poor shall most wisdom know.
The world to end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty y-one.
This is not very wonderful production
for person who lived in 1862. II. C.P.
Auburn Jan. 20, 1881.