A Nostradamus book that correctly predicted Queen Elizabeth II would die in 2022 contains other correct predictions, its publisher claims. And it could also contain a mysterious message about Elon Musk’s mission to take mankind to Mars, says the author’s son. The first English edition titled The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II. Francis II. and Charles IX. Kings of France, was published in London by Thomas Ratcliffe and Nathaniel, in the year 1672. [3]

How has The Prophecies outlasted most books from the Renaissance? This edition considers its legacy in terms of the poetics of the quatrains, published here in a brilliant new translation and with introductory material and notes mapping the cultural, political, and historical forces that resonate throughout Nostradamus’s epic, giving it its visionary power.

Freshly translated [and] stamped with the approval of the editors of the venerable Penguin Classics series . . . this new dual-language edition of The Prophecies,translated by the excellent Richard Sieburth, makes a case for Nostradamus as a poet of sweep and impact. . . . Never mind the Weather Channel. If the Penguin Classics people are telling me to be afraid, then I am prepared to be very afraid indeed.”— Dwight Garner, The New York Times

Astrologically speaking, no prophecies are closer to what the Dada and Surrealist spirit holds sacred than the Propheciesof Nostradamus, whose mysterious enigmas are here rendered sparkling, all these centuries later.”— Mary Ann Caws,Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French, the Graduate Center, City University of New York This claim did not make much sense at first, however when the water system was introduced, bringing water across the Ouse Bridge in pipes that reached a windmill, the prophecy did not seem so cryptic.In North Yorkshire, along the River Nidd, one can find the birthplace of Ursula Southeil, better known as the soothsayer Mother Shipton. Two years later, her plight was noticed by the Abbott of Beverley who empathised with Agatha’s situation, offering assistance in the form of a local family who would take Ursula in and look after her, whilst Agatha would be taken away to a distant nunnery in Nottinghamshire, never to be seen again. Ursula dealt with the local community by keeping to herself and journeying off into the woodland and to the cave where she had been born. It was here that she studied the local woodland in great detail, enabling her to devise potions, remedies and concoctions made from the local flora.

As her reputation grew, so too did belief in her abilities, enabling her to make a living out of her prophecies. He also discovers that powerful figures within the Peruvian government and the Catholic Church are opposed to the dissemination of the material found in the manuscript. This is dramatically illustrated when the police try to arrest and then shoot the historian after his arrival. Threats to his life forced the narrator to live nomadically, moving from town to town in search of kind-hearted people who would offer lodging in exchange for more information about the manuscript and its message. Let me give out a caveat: I don't think your enjoyment of this book hinges on believing a word of it. Kenneth Hite called Keel one of the premiere unappreciated horror writers of the 20th century, and this book is why. Treat it as fiction; I did, and I loved it. The Mothman lives on, in the Ohio River region that was once his haunt. There is a Mothman Museum in downtown Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and a Mothman statue that shows a winged, human-like creature with glowing red eyes. The Mothman, as any resident of the region can tell you, began appearing to a number of people in the area around Point Pleasant in the fall of 1966. Mothman appearances, and other bizarre events, continued to occur until December of 1967, when the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River, killing 46 people; and from that time forward, the Mothman was never seen again. That strange timeline of difficult-to-explain events becomes the central focus of John Keel’s 1975 book The Mothman Prophecies. The story opens with the male narrator becoming reacquainted with an old female friend, who tells him about the insights contained in a manuscript dating to 600 BC, which has been only recently translated. After this encounter leaves him curious, he decides to go to Peru. On the airplane, he meets a historian who also happens to be interested in the manuscript.Such tales would only add to the mystery and intrigue surrounding Ursula, however her life would be beset by personal tragedy leading to her estrangement from the community once again. Only two years after marrying, Tobias Shipton passed away, leaving her to become a social outcast once more as some cast aspersions as to the circumstances of his death. The book begins and ends with the Mothman and the bridge collapsing in Point Pleasant, but I wasn’t at all satisfied with the takeaway. The title is about as misleading as it gets, since as far as I can tell, the Mothman himself never speaks to anyone, much less relays a prophecy of doom. Keel apparently gets those through his malfunctioning telephone; we know because there are chapters and chapters about “crank” supernatural telephone calls as well. While the film, apparently, takes a lot of liberties, it is way more entertaining. 10/10 will not be reading any more UFO books, ever (and, frankly, didn’t know I was signing up for one this time) Love monsters, could take or leave aliens. This could all be fun. But Keel never focuses for very long on any single incident, narrative thread or claim, which prevents the narrative from gathering momentum. I eventually realized that Keel presented the events in this way because, for him, they are all related; related in a way that is too esoteric for me to describe with much confidence (my two cents: they are all related by the fact that Keel draws on them in his delusional attempt to understand reality), but I'll give it a try. The thing is, contrary to all my expectations of this book, Keel doesn't actually believe in Mothman or UFOs- in fact, writing in the late 60s, he bemoans the fact that speculation about UFOs has entered the mainstream. But he doesn't exactly disbelieve, either. Instead, he settles on the most convoluted theory I can imagine. Mothman, UFOs, and seemingly everything else that is in any way weird or unexplained are not purely physical phenomena, but they're not delusions, either. These entities are not extraterrestrials but ultraterrestrials, who exist on something he calls the super-spectrum.

The Mothman Prophecies may be better-known than other works of UFOlogy because it was made into a major film in 2002. Stylishly directed by Mark Pellington, the film has a strong cast – Richard Gere, Debra Messing, Laura Linney, Will Patton, and Alan Bates as a Keel-type parapsychologist – and a decided X-Files feel. Perhaps Keel, who died in 2009, got something of a feeling of vindication from seeing his work translated to the big screen; while the film tells a fictionalized story, Keel wrote that the filmmakers “have managed to squeeze the basic truths into their film” (p. 272). These words may suggest some kind of revolt against the wealthy who have traditionally been insulated from the economic turmoil affecting the rest of society. Another quatrain presents an equally dire vision of discord and violence: The first edition included three whole Centuries and 53 quatrains. The book begins with a preface, in the form of a message to his son César, followed by the Centuries themselves. The second edition was published in the same year and has minor differences from the first. As of May 2005, the book had sold over 5 million copies worldwide, [3] with translations into 34 languages. None of this has to stop you from enjoying the book as a well-told series of unsettling anecdotes, which it is. I also don't discount the possibility that Keel intended at least some of it as a joke. At any rate, that is a part of the book that I appreciated- that Keel had a very dry and absurd sense of humor, which I think is evidenced in his choice of chapter titles. Below are my top eight. Possible writing exercise: choose your favorite as a prompt, and write for thirty minutes.

Nostradamus

Whilst her mysticism proved unnerving for some, in such a high-profile case such as predicting Cardinal Wolsey’s fate, or the ensuing dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, her status and fame reached dizzying new heights.