Mother Shipton (1488-1561) was a renowned soothsayer and hag of 16th-century England. Her pronouncements were first printed 80 years after her death, and from the beginning they included a number of fabrications. In fact Mother Shipton's most famous prophecy of all wasn't even invented until an 1862 edition of her sayings, 300 years after her death:
"The world to and end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty one."
