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Fake Nostradamus Quatrains in the Tabloids |
The following passages have been quoted in the tabloids as the work of Nostradamus. Unable to find them in the known texts of the sixteenth-century seer, I conjecture that they are, in fact, fabrications, more in the long history of Faking Nosty. In other ways, too, these tabloid stories bear the marks of inauthenticity, described on the Nostradamus page.
Similarly, fake Nostradamus prophecies about the terrorist activities of September 11, 2001 are also in circulation.
On the other hand, there are potentially many undiscovered manuscripts in the world's libraries. If you have any confirmation of these prophecies or the work of these scholars, please get in touch at acarr@alleg.edu
The tabloid produces the following quatrain supposedly translated into English by Bernard Heubner.
The New Land is scorched in the year 19 and 98
The people cry out for mercy, but death does prevail
Summer's heat and storms are unrelenting through September
The people cannot escape, tens of thousands die
Although passages predicting bad weather appear in Nostradamus, this one does not.
Analysis of Weekly World News 26 May 1998.
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The Sun announced 17 "newly-discovered" quatrains just translated by researchers at the University of Toulouse, notably Dr. Hans Arturo Frank, who reported them to a University of Bonn audience on 1 March, 1998. The translations are reported as follows:
- For forty days the rainbow will not be seen. For forty days blizzards blow across the land. Great is the final battle, hellish the slaughter. The just flee to secret places prepared by kings.
- Armageddon will begin 1 July 1999, fighting a 40-day war.
- "The cavalry charge, ten thousand their number."
- Opening battle of Armageddon will be fought with 10,000 armored tanks.
- The angel, that beauty of heaven, is laid low, his golden tresses fall in the dust. The demon's face is triumphant, he raises his terrible flag in Spain and Gascony.
- Supernatural creatures will be given form, to destroy each other.
- The sword of iron breaks like glass, so bitter the winter cold. The dead lie in heaps, the gravedigger leans on his shovel. 'Woe is me,' he says, "for a blizzard of death descends on us." The Queen of England burns her dead under a scarlet standard.
- Confirms that Armageddon will be a winter campaign.
- The rank poison creeps across the fields, killing the cattle and their tenders. The ruthless Persian smiles, his evil work is not yet done.
- Refers to chemical warfare by Saddam Hussein in the 1980's.
The first passage is strongly reminiscent of C1, Q17, which also begins "For forty years the rainbow will not appear..." What follows however, is different, and the entire verse is modified to connect these forty days with the forty days of a "final battle" very explicitly.
Analysis of Sun 24 March, 1998.
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Fifteen prophecies were supposedly newly-discovered by Edgar Morsk, on 20 June 1997 in a basement of a monastery just outside Paris. Full publication of the text is supposedly on the way (due November 1997), but meanwhile, WWN published all fifteen in abbreviated form. Each supposedly predicts some event of 1998.
- Violent summer storms will pound the eastern U.S. from Connecticut to the Carolinas. Winds and rains will kill more than a million people and do billions of dollars worth of damage.
- A European Christian leader will be exposed as a follower of Satan. His suicide and those of his followers were inspire thousands in Devil worship.
- A plague of rattlesnakes will occur in southern U.S.. Rattlers will slither everywhere, and snakebites will be routine.
- Two-third of the population of Russia will die in a nuclear accident.
- A Polish doctor will discover a cure for all forms of cancer.
- A 54-year-old Zen Buddhist monk will win four major sports events.
- Scientists will bring a 1,500-year-old Egyptian mummy back to life.
- A violinist's healing music will bring peace to thousands of quarrelling couples, and a pair of feuding nations.
- A Indian guru will teach thousands to fly using their mindpower.
- The most popular TV show in history will feature a talking dog. According to the WWN, N's description of TV is stunningly accurate.
- A new virus will make its victims constantly happy.
- Deadly rain will kill two million in China.
- A European dignitary will leave his wife and marry a barmaid.
- A comet will strike and reshape the Grand Canyon
- Jesus will return on December 13 [1998] to give all a chance to see him and repent. His final return and the end of the world is scheduled for May 6, 2000.
Analysis of Weekly World News, 15 July 1997.
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