It would be have been difficult to fake the weathered headstone I witnessed as a child in the company of my great aunt on the grave in Hallowed ground in a Northumberland churchyard with the words,"When men like birds shall scan the sky, and like iron fish shall swim the sea, then half the world drenched, in blood shall be, and here I lie where I said and when".This was noted as the place where lies the burned remains of Mother Mary Shipton by my great aunt from Rossington Doncaster when she talked of Mother shipton when I was a child in the 1950's. To the Mary Shiptons of the world, like my great aunt would tell me things, including predicting accuratelly my grandfathers,my late brother Robert, and my fathers deaths, of whom I was the only believer in the family, seeing the future was more accurate than our modern day weather readers, and the predictions were written in old english and understandable
, not Quatrained in some foreign language then scattered to be re-interpreted.