I went to the Museum of London last Saturday. Oh yeah. How about that? It’s not just about the football you see for me. There’s all sorts of cultural stuff going on there too. Well, there is in the close season. Occasionally.
Anyway, predictably there’s a big section of the exhibit devoted to the Great Fire of London in 1666. Less predictable is the claim IN A MUSEUM that the Great Fire was prophesied by a witch more than one hundred years earlier. Apparently it’s widely believed (presumably mainly by people who live only with cats) that ‘Mother Shipton’ a ‘witch’ from ‘the 1500s’ foresaw the disaster and alerted the world with the following quote:
Time shall happen A Ship shall sail upon th...

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