Mystic snippets
Mar 17, 2020
3 minutes
Words: Dina Chern and Amanda Vlietstra
LEGEND OF THE MONTH
you’ve been to Knaresborough, in North Yorkshire, you may have visited Mother Shipton’s Cave. Said to be Britain’s oldest tourist attraction, it’s famous for its petrifying well which gradually turns anything placed in it to stone. Mother Shipton herself was said to have been born in the cave during the 16th century. Born Ursula Sontheil, she was teased as a child for her witch-like appearance,
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