Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-11-22

most countless other facts, accoroiHs
Ito her dsvotees.
Numbers Of her predictions did not
lcome to pass But what cared her de-
yotecs? When she published her al
,manac in 1914 it was read with avid!ty
And the readers beheld many strange
things at which they marvelcd. But
when they read that in the month OF
July, 1914. all Europe will be upset By
a war in all the countries. accompanied
by enormous disaster" they gasped.
| When the great war started there
was renewed rush to obtain copies OF
her almanac. Even the then naughty
Germans sent for all they could get,
and her vogue increased still moro.
i Rrfralning from mentioning date,
Madame ThcbCs wrote: I'm Novemb'r
Il great emperor will lose his crown and
the war will end. Indian. Canadian
and Australian contingcnts will partic-
ipatc. and so will the Japanese fleet"
| When her almanac for 1915 appear
ID interest in the march Of tn" Huns
toward Paris was almost forgotten
while the people p.rused her utter
anccS
Prophecies OF Germany.
But it is OF Germany. in view of re-
cent events, that her prophecies ar
most ntoresting.
Where is the man of whom know
and of whom l prophcsied last year
who will rise up In Germany to make
them listen to u word which will domi-
nate all words. and who can save his
native land from a part of the just
punishment reserved for it by Provi-
dence?
Germany will increase in spite Of
her loss. She will rise republic. The
lGcrman elements OF Austria will at
tach themselves to Germany by the
lien of the Danube and community of
religion"
To Americans, Madame Thebes paid
scant attention. American farmers,
hold your wheat and corn," she COM
manded. You will receive high prices.
New York is threatened. but her ca
tastrophe may be only financial"
OF the former Kaiser, Madame The
bes said: William II. will die mad and
a physical wreck. The crown prince
will die at the hands Of an assassin"
Frequently she prophesied the end
ing Of the war. giving dates. But the
failure Of her forccastings were forgot.
ten by the world. which continued to
hang upon her utterances until her
death.
Mother ShiptOn's Forecast.
1 Turning back in the centuries, we
come to Mother Shipton, who flourish
ed in the days when witchcraft was
rampant in England. She is said to
have been the daughter Of Agatha
Southill. known among her neighbors
las "the DEVILS Child" AS Ursula
Southill she lived from her birth in
1886. in Dropping Well, Knaresbor-
\ oash9 Yorkshiser. = - '-A---
Chronicles of her day are filled with
the many exhibitions of supernatural
power she gave and for time her
predictions as TO the mobiles of Henry
VIII were feared-and accepted.
But it is Of events far in the future
that she made a prophecy. which has
been preserved in almost its original al
lcgorical form. that gave her rank as
one of the forccasters of the world.
This prophecy as at present extant.
runs:
Carriages without horses shall go
And accidents fll all the world with woe:
Primrose Hill in London shall be
| And in the center bishops sec;
/ Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinking Of an eye.
| Through the hills men shall ride
And no ass or horse be by their side.
| great man shall come and 80.
| Iron in the water shall float
As easy as a wonder boat.
Gold shall be found. and found
In land that is not now known.
| Fire and water shall moro wonder do,
England shall AZ last admit a jew.
The jew that was held in scorn
Shall Of n Christian I've horn and horn.
| A house Of glass shall como TO pass
In England hut. alas.
War will follow with the work
In 'hc land Of PAGAN and Turk:
| Ard Sta'C ana Slhtp, IN E'ECc sNEiIe'
| Will sock each Others life.
| Bu, when the North shall divide the South
An eagle shall huild in the Lions mouth.
Taxes for blood and for war
| Will como TO every donr.
Three times three shall lovely France
| BE led to play a bloody dance.
Before her people shall be free
Three tyrant rulers she shall see.
The British Olive ncxt shall climb
| In marriage with the German Vine.
All England's sons that pillow the land
| Shall he seen hook In hand.
| Learning shall so chb and flow
| The poor shall most wisdom know.
| Tho world then To an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eiShty-one"
So great was the belief in rural Eng
land in the efficacy Of Mother Shipton
that when the year 1881 arrived many
Of the peasants are said to have pre-
pared for death.
1t has recently been said that the
last two lines Of this prophecy are
forgery, put in the mouth Of Mother
Shipton by one Charles Hindley.
Brother Johannes Allesory.
Another famous prophecy is that of
| BrOther Johannes, WrllteH III Lut'i oS
the monk in 1900. His subject was
Antichrist. who. he said, would be de-
stroyed in q great war. In reading the
allegory in its application to the war
the following key must be used:
France Is represented by cock.
England by a leopard.
Russia by a white eagle.
Germany by black eagle.
Austria by "the other eagle"
j Mercy, justice and truth by the
Lamb.
The translation Of the allegory pre-
sented by the Paris Figaro reads:
Toward the year 1000 the Anti
christ will manifest himself. His army
will surpass in numbers all that can be
imagined.
There will be Christians among his
legions, and there will be Mohamme-
dams and savage soldiers among the
defenders Of the Lamb.