Sunday, November 20, 2016

NO, NOSTRADAMUS DID NOT PROPHECIZE DONALD J. TRUMP!

Nostradamus (Michel de Nostredame), The Prophecies (A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text), translated from the French by Richard Sieburth, historical introduction and Supplementary Material by Stephane Gerson (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books, 2012). However, quatrain 2.24 is oft quoted in reference to Adolf Hitler, so the jury may still be out about Donald J. Trump.

Quatrain 2.24
"Beasts wild with hunger shall swim the rivers :
Most of the host shall move against Ister :
He'll have the great one dragged in ion cage,
When the child the German Rhine surveys."
Id. at 45.