Nostradamus

• Watchlist

The material offered in this newest number from the Historical Mysteries group studies a subject that should hold a greater audience response than the customary high degree of attention given these intriguing short queries. It offers the strange success of a certain psychic individual, Michael de Nostradamus, whose name has been coined into the word "nostrum," to foretell coming events. A learned medico of the middle ages, Nostradamus wrote a tome called "Prophetic Centuries" in which are contained forecasts of happenings such as the London fire of 1666, the tragic fate of Louis XVI and royal consort, Marie Antoinette, and the military career of the little Corsican Corporal. The riddling of the future is done in historical and entertaining accuracy.