Thus 'spake' the famous Mother Shipton, the medieval 'prophetess', in her fifteenth century (poetic) prediction of coming 'attractions'. Though one cannot - in all good faith and adherence to the truth - avoid adding that her very next, last stanza line added, obviously very significantly, 'In **eighteen hundred and eighty-one' as the end-date of that end of the world 'prophecy', one cannot help be taken by the above (title of this blogpost) quotation from said 'prediction'; alongside many other stanzas of equal interest and note/significance, as a matter of fact...
But this little blogpost is for another reason altogether, in fact simply to record my - admittedly all too feeble - obituary to the premature passing of a humble hero and modern-day paragon of virtue, the taxi driver Alan/Allan Henning, cut down in his prime just three short days ago now...
May he rest in peace, and his kith and kin be - somehow (I don't know how) - consoled/comforted...and may every last one of your tormenters/torturers, Alan, rot in hell - to the very end of time...alongside every last one of their fellow-travelling apologists...
*A poem I quite literally stumbled upon Sunday week ago in a classic olden times' tome of Clarence Reed, entitled Great Prophecies About the War...though I'd previously also come across 'Mother Shipton', supposedly a Medieval 'crazy woman' (as in a dreamer/visionary/mystic), in one of two wonderful dvds signalling presumably/supposedly the End of the World in 2012, the History Channel's 'Nostradamus: 2012: Hindsight is 20/20. Foresight is 2012'; and Nostradamus Effect: The Complete Season One: How Will The End Begin?'.
**Curiously enough 1881 is a bombshell of a date in numerological terms, with two '18s' back to back, a number in occult meaning impregnated with psychic power and oomph, associated (from recall of my late teen days when becoming a professional astrologer/numerologist was top upon my agenda) with such worldwide, earth-shattering, traumatic events as revolutions...and together creating a third 18...almost like the synthesis and its antithesis out of which Karl Marx (alongside Friedrich Engels) manufactured their infamous theory of imminent global Communist Revolution.
