Nostradamus

Michel de Nostredame (aka Nostradamus) was a 16th-century French "seer", used astrology and various "occult" sciences to get his predictions of the future.



Some of his top predictions were:

1. "From the enslaved populace, songs,
   Chants and demands
   While princes and lords are held captive in prisons.
   These will in the future by headless idiots
   Be received as divine prayers"

Which was thought to be the French revolution. It was interpreted as:

The peasants ("the enslaved populace") rising to power, the aristocracy taken down and beheaded (the "headless idiots," now "princes and lords ... held captive in prisons"). In another verse, the "great wall" falling is said to mean the storming of the Bastille.

       2.  "The blood of the just will commit a fault at London,
             Burnt through lighting of twenty threes the six:
             The ancient lady will fall from her high place,
             Several of the same sect will be killed."

Which was thought to be the Great London Fire of 1666. Some of it's interpretations:

Medieval London ("the ancient lady") within the old Roman walls. Only six deaths were recorded (hence "the six" in the second line).

        3. "Near the gates and within two cities
             There will be scourges the like of which was never seen,
             Famine within plague, people put out by steel,
            Crying to the great immortal God for relief."

Which was about the Atomic Bomb.
It is apparently a good description of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Scourges the like of which was never seen," people "crying to the great immortal God."
        4. "The two greatest ones of Asia and of Africa,
             From the Rhine and Lower Danube they will be said to have come,
             Cries, tears at Malta and the Ligurian side.'             And
            "From the depths of the West of Europe,
             A young child will be born of poor people,
            He who by his tongue will seduce a great troop;
            His fame will increase towards the realm of the East."

Which is about World War II and Hitler.

Question is do are all these prophecies what we are making them out to be?
Or are we just trying to make big events, which have happened around the world, fit with what Nostradamus has predicted?