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With 2024 barely a week old, people are yet again making comparisons with current events and predictions from hundreds of years ago.
On New Year’s Day, a devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the Japanese regions of Ishikawa and Noto, killing at least 126 people and displacing thousands more.
In the aftermath of this disaster, and with people still being rescued from the rubble, conspiracy theorists and online commentators worldwide began to draw eerie parallels with the incident and the peculiar prophecies of French astrologer, Nostradamus.
Born in the 16th Century, Michel de Nostredame laid out his vision of the distant future in his 1555 tome ‘Les Propheties’, in which it’s claimed he called the Great Fire of London, the rise of Hitler, and the death of Queen Elizabeth II – to name just a few of his predictions.
Because of fears about his astrological work being seen as heretical by the all-powerful Catholic Church, Les Propheties was written in a weird mix of Italian, Greek, Latin and Provençal to try and obscure its true meaning from prying eyes.
Believers say his decoded prophecies suggest he correctly predicted various world events and include multiple references to natural disasters, man-made horrors, and the deaths of notable people throughout history.
Whilst his writings are vague and thus open to massive interpretation, some believe he foresaw this year’s quake in Japan with the lines:
“The dry Earth will become more parched and there will be great floods.” He also said 2024 would see a “great famine through pestiferous wave” – with believers taking ‘pestiferous wave’ to mean an earthquake.
What else does Nostradamus predict for 2024?
Looking ahead to 2024, Nostradamus predicted various events in 2024 – and nothing that we should be looking forward to.
