Editing Mother Shipton (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:MotherShiptonMoth.jpg|thumb|A [[Mother Shipton moth]], with hag-like markings on its wings]]

The figure of Mother Shipton accumulated considerable folklore and legendary status. Her name became associated with many tragic events and strange goings-on recorded in the UK, North America and Australia throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Many fortune-tellers used her effigy and statue, presumably for purposes of association marketing. Many English pubs were named after her. Only two survive, one near her purported birthplace in [[Knaresborough]] and the other in [[Portsmouth]]. The latter has a statue of her above the door.

A [[caricature]] of Mother Shipton was used in early [[pantomime]]. Her appearance in pantomime was mentioned in a song from [[Yorkshire]] that was transcribed in the 18th century, and which reads (in part): "Of all the pretty pantomimes/ That have been seen or sung in rhimes,/Since famous Johnny Rich's times,/There's none like Mother Shipton."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ingledew|first=C. J. Davison|title=The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire, Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications|publisher=Bell and Daldy|year=1860|location=London, UK|pages=123}}</ref> 

The Mother Shipton [[moth]] (''[[Callistege mi]]'') is named after her. Each [[External morphology of Lepidoptera#Colour|wing's pattern]] resembles a [[hag]]'s head in profile.

[[File:Mother Shipton statue.jpg|thumb|Statue of Mother Shipton in Knaresborough]]

A fundraising campaign was started in 2013 to raise £35,000 to erect a statue of Shipton in Knaresborough. Completed in October 2017, the statue sits on a bench in the town's Market Square close to a statue of [[John Metcalf (civil engineer)|John Metcalf]], an 18th-century road engineer known as Blind Jack.<ref name="Campaign">{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-24361476 | title=Knaresborough campaign for Mother Shipton statue | work=[[BBC News]] | date=3 October 2013 | access-date=9 November 2013}}</ref>

Mother Shipton is referred to in [[Daniel Defoe]]'s ''[[A Journal of the Plague Year]]'' (1722), referring to the year 1665, when the bubonic plague erupted in London: 
<blockquote>"These terrors and apprehensions of the people led them into a thousand weak, foolish, and wicked things, which they wanted not a sort of people really wicked to encourage them to: and this was running about to fortune-tellers, cunning-men, and astrologers to know their fortune, or, as it is vulgarly expressed, to have their fortunes told them, their nativities calculated, and the like... And this trade grew so open and so generally practised that it became common to have signs and inscriptions set up at doors: 'Here lives a fortune-teller', 'Here lives an astrologer', 'Here you may have your nativity calculated', and the like; and Friar Bacon's brazen-head, which was the usual sign of these people's dwellings, was to be seen almost in every street, or else the sign of Mother Shipton...."<ref>[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm ''A Journal of the Plague Year''] (1772), Daniel Defoe, The [[Project Gutenberg]] EBook, 2006</ref></blockquote>