Position:Home>History> How many of Nostradamus prophecies came true?

There is no evidence to support any of them came true without a reasonable doubt!. Those writings are so vague they can be twisted and deciphered in any number of ways and applied to many events in time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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During his lifetime a handful came true!. The most notable one was his prediction that a member of the royal family would die in a tournament!. That's the one that made his reputation!.

The ones written in verse are easy to misinterpret and none of them have dates!. Since our calendar has changed since he was around, that's a good thing!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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You mean how many were interpreted (after the fact) as describing a certain event!? Probably plenty, if not most of them!.

What people forget was that this guy was writing for the kings of his own time, when talking about the Eagle falling or other such blather he was talking about the heraldry of a king, not the US of A, and he was projecting what would happen in five or ten years from what was happening at the time he was writing!. He was earning his food that way, why write about things that meant nothing to the powerful of the day who did not give a darn about events in 2 or 3 centuries and go hungry when he could pander to their ego and earn a lot of money!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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"Truth" lies in the mind of the thinker!. Nostradamus was a charlatan!. Had he lived during the American wild west period he would be known as a "snake-oil salesman"!.

If you are coerced by inductive reasoning more power to you!Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Sixty three came true out of about one hundred and twenty!. He'd have got many more right but he didn't foresee British Leyland going out of business and so got lots of the ones about the "best small car" wrong!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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None!. of course!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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None at all, actually!. His "Centuries" is his best known work!. It has many quatrains=4 line poems that are vague, and charlatans interpret them after something happens to say he predicted it!. Mountbanks mistransalate them badly too!. One supposedly predicted the 1666 Great Fire of London!. A book my brother has says the pertinent verse says something about the blood of the just shed in London and then "66"!. When I see the original verse, it says in French, "vingt trois les sixes"!. That simply means 23 groups of 6, not 66 at all!. The word for 80 is quatre vingt = 4 20's, but trois vingt (3 20's) is not the term for 60!. The verse says vingt trois anyhow, and anyone who speaks French knows that is 23!. I have told about other verses and what swindlers claim they predicted in other answers!. It is always certain that Nostradamus was just writing obscure nonsense, often about recent events!. some morons mistake obscurity for profundity!. EDIT: I see Loryntoo refers to the quatrain that was interpreted as predicting a death in the royal family, so I will comment on that!. The French king Henri II died from an injury suffered in a tournament, but no verse really applies to him!. One speaks of an old lion facing a young one on the battlefield, but Henri died after a sporting bout, not a real battle, and he was only a few months older than his foe!. Lions have nothing to do with French royalty!. A lion is on the British coat-of-arms, but France has the fleur-de-lis = lily flower!. The verse speaks of a golden cage, but both men wore steel helmets, for gold is much too soft for such use!. As you should see, the verse really has nothing to do with Henri's accidental death!. The only resemblance is that it speaks of a crushed eye, and a piece of a lance penetrated Henri's eye!. That is just coincidence, since the rest of the verse is quite different from the facts of the king's death!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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