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  1. “31 Days of Hallowe’en, Day 4: Mother Shipton’s Cave & The Petrifying Well.” Wednesday’s Child. October 4, 2020. https://wednesdayschildisfullofwoeblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/31-days-of-halloween-day-4-mother-shiptons-cave-the-petrifying-well/ 

  2. Bradbury, Ray. “Embroidery.” In Ray Bradbury, Twice Twenty-Two (Doubleday & Company, 1959).

  3. Brain, Jessica. “Mother Shipton and Her Prophesies.” Historic UK. April 5, 2022. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Mother-Shipton-Prophesies/ 

  4. Castleton, David. “Mother Damnable – the Wicked Witch of Camden Town Tube Station.” The Serpent’s Pen. March 4, 2021. https://www.davidcastleton.net/mother-damnable-witch-camden-town-london-mother-red-cap-black-cap/ 

  5. Devillers, Carolyn. “Sioux Legend of the Old Woman in the Cave.” Extraordinary Women Leaders in Speleology (EWLS). October 13, 2014. http://extraordinarywls.blogspot.com/2014/10/sioux-legend-of-old-woman-in-cave.html 

  6. “The End of the World.” Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center. [n.d.] https://aktalakota.stjo.org/lakota-legends/the-end-of-the-world/ 

  7. Gardiner, James (ed). Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, Vol XI, Part I (Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1890).

  8. Gordon, Beverly. “Deep-Seated Associations: Textile Threads in Language, Myths, Fairy Tales, and Novels.” PieceWork. May 15, 2023. https://pieceworkmagazine.com/deep-seated-associations-textile-threads-in-language-myths-fairy-tales-and/ 

  9. “Great British Bake Off Stars at Mother Shipton’s.” Mother Shipton’s. September 21, 2021. https://www.mothershipton.co.uk/great-british-bake-off-stars-at-mother-shiptons/ 

  10. “The Great Fire of London.” Royal Museums Greenwich. [n.d.] https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/great-fire-london 

  11. Harrison, William H. Mother Shipton Investigated (W.H. Harrison, 1881).

  12. Hindley, Charles. The Life, Prophecies, and Death of the Famous Mother Shipton (J. Buck, 1862).

  13. Holmes, Rhiannon. “Mother Shipton's Cave and the Petrifying Well.” Atlas Obscura. March 19, 2012. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mother-shipton-s-cave-and-the-petrifying-well 

  14. Hudson, Graham. “Mother Shipton and the Dropping Well.” The Ephemera Society. 2003. http://www.ephemera-society.org.uk/articles/shipton.html 

  15. Jenkins, Richard. “The Fortunes of Mother Shipton.” Folklore Thursday. October 21, 2021. https://folklorethursday.com/legends/the-fortunes-of-mother-shipton/ 

  16. Levy, Michelle. “Mother Shipton: The Oldest Woman in the WPHP.” The Women’s History Print Project. April 26, 2019. https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/4 

  17. “Lost London – Mrs Salmon’s Waxworks…” Exploring London. April 19, 2013. https://exploring-london.com/2013/04/19/lost-london-mrs-salmons-waxworks/ 

  18. Mackay, Charles. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Lindsay and Blakiston, 1850).

  19. McGrane, Laura. “Bewitching Politics and Unruly Performances: Mother Shipton Gets her Kicks in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Popular and Print Culture.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 43(4), October 2007: pp. 370-384.

  20. “Mother Shipton.” Butterfly Conservation. [n.d.] https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/mother-shipton 

  21. Mother Shipton’s Legacy. Or, A Favourite Fortune-Book, In which is given, A Pleasing Interpretation Of Dreams: And A Collecting of Prophetic Verses, Moral and Entertaining (Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1797).

  22. Mother Shipton’s Wheel of Fortune by means of which, you may learn your FUTURE DESTINY (J. March, 1861).

  23. “Old Mother Shipton: The OG witch!” Herstorical Tours. October 16, 2024. https://www.herstoricaltours.co.uk/post/old-mother-shipton-the-og-witch 

  24. “The Ancient Art of Kitchen Divination.” Atlas Obscura. October 17, 2022. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-fortune-telling

  25. “The Park.” Mother Shipton’s. [n.d.] https://www.mothershipton.co.uk/the-park/ 

  26. The Prophesie of Mother Shipton In the Reigne [sic] of King Henry the Eighth (Richard Lownds, 1642).

  27. Red Shirt, Delphine. Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood (University of Nebraska Press, 1998).

  28. Simon, Ed. “Divining the Witch of York: Propaganda and Prophecy.” The Public Domain Review. October 24, 2018. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/divining-the-witch-of-york-propaganda-and-prophecy/

  29. Stephen. “The Mystery Of Mother Shipton & Her Link To My Recent Find.” Source Vintage Antiques. June 13, 2022. https://source-vintage.co.uk/blogs/news/the-mystery-of-mother-shipton-her-link-to-my-recent-find

  30. “The Story.” Mother Shipton’s. [n.d.] http://www.mothershipton.co.uk/the-story/

  31. The Strange and Wonderful History of Mother Shipton, Plainly setting forth Her Prodigious Birth, Life, Death, and Burial. With an exact Collection of all her famous PROPHECYS [sic] More Compleat [sic] than ever yet before published. And large Explanations, shewing [sic] how they have all along been fulfilled to this very YEAR (Printed for W.H. and sold by J. Conyers, 1686).

  32. Thornton, Tim. Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England (Boydell, 2006).

  33. Torrence, Gaylord. Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection (Yale University Press, 2018).

  34. Webster, M.L. On the Trail Made of Dawn: Native American Creation Stories (Linnet Books, 2001).

  35. Yang, Allie, and Jon Waterman. “Uncovering Native history in Badlands National Park.” National Geographic. November 11, 2021. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/uncovering-native-history-in-badlands-national-park