Paranormal
In several quatrains, Nostradamus often spoke of two, and sometimes three, brothers that were part of monumental points in history. It is not clear who the brothers are, but here are the quatrains that reference brothers. There is also a reference in an Epistle to the brothers.
Century 2, Quatrain 95
The populous places will be uninhabitable:
Great discord to obtain fields:
Realms delivered to prudent incapable ones:
Then for the great brothers dissension and death.
Erika Cheetham’s interpretation is similar to that of John Hogue, who has written that the great brothers could be the slain John Kennedy and his brother, Robert. However, Nostradamus might have been referring to contemporary events: the 1588 murder of brothers Henry (Duc de Guise) and Charles (Cardinal de Guise).
Century 5, Quatrain 50
The year that the brothers of the lily come of age,
One of them will hold the great "Romania":
The mountains to tremble, Latin passage opened,
Agreement to march against the fort of Armenia.
Century 8, Quatrain 17
Those at ease will suddenly be cast down,
The world put into trouble by three brothers;
Their enemies will seize the marine city,
Hunger, fire, blood, plague, all evils doubled.
Century 8, Quatrain 46
Paul the celibate will die three leagues from Rome,
The next two flee the oppressed Tarascan monster.
For Mars will make the most horrible throne,
Of the Cock and the Eagle of France, three brothers.
Of the three popes named Paul who have been elected since 1555, only Paul VI died six leagues from Rome -- at Castel Gandolfo, summer residence of the pope.
Tarascon is a town named after a monster, the Tarasca, according to John Hogue. Bardo Kidogo has an interesting "take" on the meaning of the Tarascan monster. Tarragon, the plant, is known scientifically as Artemisia dracunculus. Another member of that plant family is Artemisia absinthium, more commonly: wormwood. Chernobyl (or "Chornobyl") is Ukrainian for wormwood.
Century 9, Quatrain 36
A great King taken by the hands of a young man,
Not far from Easter confusion knife thrust:
Everlasting captive times what lightning on the top,
When three brothers will wound each other and murder.
(Another translation of the same: Hogue)
A great king captured by the hands of a young man,
Not far from Easter, confusion, incision of the knife:
Everlasting captives, time when the lightning is on the top,
When three brothers will be wounded and murdered.
The Epistle to Henry II
"For God will take notice of the long barrenness of the great dame, who thereupon will conceive two principal children. But she will be in danger, and the female to whom she will have given birth will also, because of the temerity of the age, be in danger of death in her eighteenth year, and will be unable to live beyond her thirty-sixth year. She will leave three males, and one female, and of these two will not have had the same father.
"There will be great differences between the three brothers, and then there will be such great cooperation and agreement between them that the three and four parts of Europe will tremble. The youngest of them will sustain and augment the Christian monarchy, and under him sects will be elevated, and suddenly cast down, Arabs will be driven back, kingdoms united and new laws promulgated.
"The oldest one will rule the land whose escutcheon is that of the furious crowned lions with their paws resting upon intrepid arms.
"The one second in age, accompanied by the Latins, will penetrate far, until a second furious and trembling path has been beaten to the Great St. Bernard Pass. From there he will descend to mount the Pyrenees, which will not, however, be transferred to the French crown. And this third one will cause a great inundation of human blood, and for a long time Lent will not include March.
"The daughter will be given for the preservation of the Christian Church. Her lord will fall into the pagan sect of the new infidels. Of her two children, one will be faithful to the Catholic Church, the other an infidel.
"The unfaithful son, who, to his great confusion and later repentance, will want to ruin her, will have three widely scattered regions, namely, the Roman, Germany and Spain, which will set up diverse sects by armed force. The 50th to the 52nd degree of latitude will be left behind.
"And all will render the homage of ancient religions to the region of Europe north of the 48th parallel. The latter will have trembled first in vain timidity but afterwards the regions to its west, south and east will tremble. But the nature of their power will be such that what has been brought about by concord and union will prove insuperable by warlike conquests.
"In nature they will be equal, but very different in faith."
