Centuries after the prophecies of the Merlin were written down, another  English Oracle appeared.
"When pictures seem alive with movements free,
when boats like fishes swim beneath the sea. 
When men like birds shall scour the sky. 
Then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die. "

This prophecies came from Mother Shipton. Mother Shipton was born in 1488 in a cave near Knaresborouh, North Yorkshire,England. Mother Shipton correctly predicted the death of Henry the Eight and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. She predicted Queen Victoria by name.  and prophesized the upheavals  of world war I & II..