Nostradamus Quotes are a Hoax

[Barb <pbnj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:28 AM 9/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I also wanted to post because of something I read this morning. It's a 
> prediction by Michel de Nostradame, aka Nostradamus. It's sort of freaked 
> me out:
>
> "In the year of the new century and nine months,
> From the sky will come a great King of Terror...
> The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
> Fire approaches the great new city..."

> In the city of york there will be a great collapse,
> 2 twin brothers torn apart by chaos while the
> fortress fall the great leader will succumb
> the third big war will begin when the big city is
> burning."

The above pair of "Nostradamus' "quatrains are making the rounds and while 
the first roughly corresponds to a real quatrain, the second is pure hoax. 
There's more than enough fear running around right now. We don't need to be 
ramping it up with net hoaxes, so I thought folks might like to see the 
following article. Reposted from AOL & Reuters without permission.

-- Barb

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Did Nostradamus really predict New York attack?
By Geert De Clercq


SINGAPORE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Internet chat rooms are abuzz with talk that 
16th century French astrologer Nostradamus forecast the attack on the World 
Trade Center in New York.

Thousands of people have received e-mails containing this prophecy, often 
with a second part forecasting that the attack on the twin towers will mark 
the beginning of World War III.

Several versions are doing the rounds. This is one of them:

"In the year of the new century and nine months

> From the sky will come a great King of Terror

The sky will burn at forty-five degrees

Fire approaches the new city."

The text corresponds roughly to a verse in Nostradamus's Century (section) 
Six, Quatrain 97. Several books on Nostradamus have speculated that this 
quatrain's first line refers to September 2001, the ninth month in the 
first year of the new century, while the 45 degrees is interpreted as the 
latitude of the city of New York.

But New York lies just below 41 degrees latitude and Nostradamus's verse 
does not mention a great war, contrary to what several e-mails say. In many 
e-mails, the verse comes with a second part, which seems harder to link to 
Nostradamus:

"In the city of York there will be a great collapse

Two twin brothers torn apart by chaos

While the fortress falls the great leader will succumb

Third big war will begin when the big city is burning."

HOAXSTRADAMUS?

"(This second quatrain) is NOT by Nostradamus," read a statement on 
www.nostradamus-repository.org, a Web site for Nostradamus study.

Hoax or not, various versions of the verse are being forwarded by the 
thousands every day.

"Initially, I was really sceptical, but I went to the web to look up 
something on (Nostradamus). Some prophecies have come true," Agnes Ng, a 
23-year old Singaporean accountancy student, told Reuters on Thursday.

She received one of the prophecies in an e-mail from a friend. Before 
forwarding the message to her contacts, she posted a copy on Usenet 
newsgroup alt.prophecies.nostradamus. The e-mail she received was even more 
specific, forecasting that:

"The big war will begin when the big city is burning

on the 11th day of the 9th month that...

two metal birds would crash into two tall statues

in the new city and the world will end soon after."

One of the newsgroup contributors who goes by the e-mail moniker of 
"Justaguy" said this was a fake.

"It has been posted ad nauseam," he said.

Nostradamus prophecies surface after nearly every major news event. False 
or real, they struck a chord in Singapore.

Bookstore salespeople told Reuters there had been strong demand for books 
on Nostradamus since Tuesday's attacks.

03:16 09-13-01

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