what did nostradamus predict?

The young lion will overcome the older one,

On the field of combat in a single battle;

He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage,

Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.

In June 1559, Henry II ignored all warnings that Nostradamus gave him and participated in a jousting tournament against the Comte de Montgomery. Both men used shields embossed with lions. Montgomery was six years younger than Henry.

During the final bout of fighting in the tournament, Montgomery failed to lower his lance in time. It shattered, sending a large splinter through the king’s gilded visor (golden cage). The result was two moral wounds (two wounds made one and then he will die a cruel death.) One splinter spliced eye; the other impaled his temple just behind the eye. Both splinters from the lance penetrated his brain. Henry lived for ten days in agony, thus fulfilling the Nostradamus prophecy that he would die a cruel death.

The blood of the just will be demanded of London,

Burnt by the fire in the year 66

On Sunday morning, the 2nd September 1666, the destruction of medieval London began with one simple spark. In five days a cataclysmic fire destroyed the city of Shakespeare. An area of one and a half miles by half a mile lay in ashes; 373 acres inside the city walls and 63 acres outside, 87 churches destroyed (including St. Paul’s Cathedral) and 13,200 houses. Although the blood of the just in the quatrain was demanded of London, only six people died.

Some people see the blood of the just as it was translated from the French to mean that justice was done to the Black Death. This fire did the city a great service by destroying the millions of rats that were carrying the Black plague through the citys population.

Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers,

The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.

Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,

When the child of Germany observes nothing.

Beasts ferocious with hunger will swim across the rivers is generally interpreted as Adolf Hitler and the German Army invading France. The greater part of the army will be against Hister is interpreted to mean the alliance that eventually defeated him. The cage of iron may refer to his bunker or to tanks, which Nostradamus would have no words for or ways of describing back in the sixteenth century.

The following two quatrains are attributed to describing the deaths of both Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy.

The ancient work will be accomplished,

And from the roof evil ruin will fall on the great man:

They will accuse an innocent, being dead, of the deed:

The guilty one is hidden in the misty copse.

This quatrain greatly pleases all of the conspiracy theorists who believe that Oswald was not the murderer of the U.S. President.

The only thing he got right that anyone can confirm was the death of a King of France in a jousting accident, and even that was ambiguous. But it's even more suspicious that the King died several years before old Nosty did.

I have read three books on the occult and magic and there is no strong suggestion in them that any prophet has been able to predict the future in any useful way. Nothing they say past "the Sun will rise and set" has been accurate and predictions of wars, floods, earthquakes and all the rest are useless unless they give a place and date, which they have NEVER done with success. Edgar Cayce is a very good example of this and so is Nostradamus.

If the stories are true, a few people, Cayce and Swedenborg for instance performed some remarkable feats of what might be called "remote viewing". But all these feats involved things that happened or existed right at that time, not in their future.

As for Nostradamus, he did not have any sort of "vision" of the future, like many thought he did. Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, by way of the rise of Napoleon I of France and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. However, his prophecies are very vague, so others would interpret base on what "they" thought it meant, which is pretty much bias. I believe Nostradamus had intentionally wrote his prophecies in such a way for open interpretations that anyone could have applied his prophecies to any typical disastrous situation, and credit him for "seeing the future." He was a very clever guy!

do not believe all this hype about 2012 or his religious predictions.yes he did prodict but what he really prodicted are long gone with fires,destruction do to heresy,and plain out negleget

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nothing and everything, depending on how good you are at construing the details from his writing after the fact

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Which Quatrain do you wanna start with?