![]() During these years she experienced a somewhat normal life, with not much of import seeming to have happened during this time. Bridget, in Nottinghamshire, leaving Ursula to live with a foster family and never seeing her again. Agatha would later go off to live at the Convent of the order of St. Ursula spent most of her childhood mostly scorned by the larger populace, instead spending most of her time in the woods collecting herbs and medicinal plants with which to make various remedies and potions, as well as honing her considerable psychic powers. ![]() This cave had all sorts of rumors whispered about it by frightened locals, such as that it was protected by dark magic and that it contained a pool which could turn anything to stone, and a well that would grant wishes, further perpetuating the mystical myths surrounding Agatha and Ursula. Incidents like these and many more like them made people very afraid of her, and although the bullying stopped it was replaced by fear, with the girl and her mother ostracized and treated as pariahs, not helped by the fact that they lived in the cave were Ursula had been born, the two of them mysterious recluses. On another occasion she was berated for her ugliness and caused horns to grow from the man’s head. However, it was at that time that she would supposedly develop her psychic powers, gaining the ability to “pull their hair, pinch them and throw them to the ground without being near them.” She also once allegedly pushed a man down to clamp a toilet seat on his neck with merely the power of her mind, and also replaced another’s hat with a chamber pot. It was partly due to her hideous visage and the rumors that she was the spawn of the Devil, a witch, or both, that Ursula was relentlessly bullied at school in her childhood. Indeed, she would never reveal who her father was, and refused to divulge his name, leaving it a curious mystery. She was by all accounts not a beautiful child, with a hideous hooked nose, bulging eyes, crooked legs, and a hunchback, so deformed and ugly that she elicited gasps from those who saw her and spurred rumors that her father had been The Devil. According to the tales, she was supposedly brought into the world in a cave in the Forest of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, England in 1488, to her teenaged mother Agatha under the name Ursula Sontheil, during a violent thunderstorm that mysteriously stopped as she let out not a cry, but a cackle. One such figure was a woman who lived in 15th century England, who was supposedly endowed with potent magical powers and who would become a powerful soothsayer who has continued to defy understanding and indeed attempts to figure out if she was ever even real at all.įrom her very birth the story of the woman called Mother Shipton has been steeped in so much myth and legend that it is often hard to disentangle fact from fiction. Such mysterious figures are steeped in amazing tales and myths to the point that it is very difficult to tell where reality ends and legend begins, leaving them lodged within the realm of true enigmas. ![]() Throughout history there have been people who have become so larger than life and so imbued with incredible stories that they transcend the status of mere human being and propel themselves into the annals of myth and legend.
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