Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with much of the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.

A two-part translation of Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus: historien et prophète was published in 1980, and John Hogue has published a number of books on Nostradamus from about 1994 onwards, including Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies ( 1999 ) and Nostradamus: A Life and Myth ( 2003 ).

A legend has it that while a friar he was approached by the ageing Nostradamus who knelt, kissed the friar's robe and then exclaimed he was kissing the robe of the future pope ..

Esoteric prophecy has been claimed for, but not by, Michel de Nostredame popularly referred to as Nostradamus who claimed to be a converted Christian.

Since the publication of this book, Nostradamus has attracted an esoteric following that, along with the popularistic press, credits him with foreseeing world events.

In Václav Havel's modern rewrite of Doctor Faustus, Fistula tempts Doctor Foustka to indulge in witchcraft, noting that he has several books by occultists such as Agrippa, Nostradamus, Eliphas Levi, and Papus.

He also has published articles in the areas of skepticism ( e. g. ESP and Nostradamus ), psychology ( e. g. temporal lobe epilepsy and genius ), and technical speculation ( e. g. “ What if scientists had found a computer in 1900 ?” and “ An informal survey on the scientific and social impact of a soda can-sized super-super computer ”).

Ellis has written several films, notably The Nostradamus Kid ( 1992 ), Cactus ( 1986 ) ( with Paul Cox ), My First Wife ( 1984 ) ( with Paul Cox ), Where the Green Ants Dream ( Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen ) ( 1984 ) film ( with German film director Werner Herzog, Man of Flowers ( 1983 ) ( with Paul Cox ), Goodbye Paradise ( 1983 ), ... Maybe This Time ( with Anne Brooksbank ) ( 1981 ), Fatty Finn ( 1980 ), and Newsfront ( 1978 ).

He has also directed several films including The Nostradamus Kid ( 1992 ), Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train ( 1988 ), Unfinished Business ( 1985 ) and Run Rabbit, Run ( 2007 ).

" Egészséges Optimizmus " ( Healthy Optimism ) from the SOLARIS 1990 LP also has an introductory voiceover in Hungarian, and chanting in Latin appears in several tracks on the album Nostradamus: Próféciák könyve.

Maksim has music videos for The Gypsy Maid, New World Concerto, Somewhere In Time, Nostradamus ; directed by Tony van den Ende, Kolibre ; directed by Tony van den Ende, Exodus, Olympic Dream, The Flight of the Bumble Bee, Prelude in C, Anthem, Habanera and Child in Paradise.

He has also presented a detailed paper called ' Comparative Study: Nostradamus and Naadi Granthas.

Huljić has also written popular pieces for Croatian piano player Maksim Mrvica such as Kolibre and Nostradamus, and Maksim's greatest hit " Croatian Rhapsody ".

Thus, no Nostradamus quatrain is known to have been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.

In his preface to the Prophecies, Nostradamus himself stated that his prophecies extend ' from now to the year 3797 '— an extraordinary date which, given that the preface was written in 1555, may have more than a little to do with the fact that 2242 ( 3797-1555 ) had recently been proposed by his major astrological source Richard Roussat as a possible date for the end of the world.

There have also been several well-known Internet hoaxes, where quatrains in the style of Nostradamus have been circulated by e-mail as the real thing.

On the tour for the Nostradamus album, in 2008, the band played many songs which had never been played live before, one of them being " Eat Me Alive ".

Many of Nostradamus ' quatrains are open-ended and have been postdicted over the centuries to fit various contemporary events.

Nostradamus ' quatrains have been recycled numerous times.

On the 2008 tour for the Nostradamus album, Judas Priest played several songs which were never played live before, or songs which had not been played for a long time.

The film presents Nostradamus as a scholar and acknowledged " seer ", which is certainly not accepted to have been the case in his own time, much less now.

Thus, as Nostradamus had allegedly predicted, he had been forced to kill the black pig as well and serve it in place of the white.

Nostradamus was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French, which may explain why they are credited to him.

Some have suggested that it was created by Nostradamus and was credited to Saint Malachy so the purported seer would not be blamed for the destruction of the papacy.

Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinizing his name from Nostredame to Nostradamus.

( Refer to the analysis of these charts by Brind ' Amour, 1993, and compare Gruber's comprehensive critique of Nostradamus ’ horoscope for Crown Prince Rudolph Maximilian.

Certainly there is no warrant for assuming — as would-be " code-breakers " are prone to do — that either the spellings or the punctuation of any edition are Nostradamus ' originals.

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological ' judgement ', or assessment, of the ' quality ' ( and thus potential ) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc .— but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that " comparative horoscopy " ( the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events ) could actually predict what would happen in the future.

Given this reliance on literary sources, it is doubtful whether Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation and incubation.

Nostradamus, a French astrological writer known for his prophecies, is often said to have become famous when one of his quatrains was construed as a prediction of the death of King Henry II:

The sayings of sibyls and oracles were notoriously open to interpretation ( compare Nostradamus ) and were constantly used for both civil and cult propaganda.

A major plotline of the series was the search for and recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi, a Renaissance-era character with similarities to both Leonardo da Vinci and Nostradamus.

The Mirabilis liber seems to have served as a major source for the prophecies of Nostradamus, and was placed on the Lisbon version of the Church's Index of Forbidden Books in 1581.

In fact, Banno was never allowed to direct another Toho film again, reduced to assistant director for Prophecies of Nostradamus ( 1974 ) and as overseer of the animated TV show Cashan: Robot Hunter ( 1988 ).

* The " PS " books ( Psongs, Psayings, Psomethings, Pnotes, and Pspeciasties ) which contain everything from the prayers of a Gatsby-like character for money, to poorly remembered snippets of literature, to numerology worthy of Nostradamus

Pierre Athanase Marie Plantard ( 18 March 1920 – 3 February 2000 ) was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the " Great Monarch " prophesied by Nostradamus.

In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, Nostradamus entered the University of Montpellier to study for a doctorate in medicine.

In reviews for texts such as Hey Nostradamus!

The Crime Writers ' Association short-listed The Liquidator, The Dancing Dodo, The Nostradamus Traitor, and The Garden of Weapons for their annual Gold Dagger award.

Apart from keyboards, he also plays accordion, occasional bass guitar ( for instance on the entire " Nostradamus " album ) and double bass.

On the first leg of the Judas Priest " Nostradamus Tour " he played a Pearl kit and then switched to a DW kit for the second leg.

A native of the fictional Flyspeck Island, Gunk ( an initialism for Gladimus Umfred Nostradamus Klaustauviwicke ) often gives some bizarre item to Curtis, with disastrous results ( most often a chameleon ).

A regular feature in the second series, medieval seer Nostradamus ( played by TV's Emma Kennedy with a false beard and, for no adequately explored reason, a Welsh accent ) would give his predictions for the week ahead, which would often be either completely absurd or extremely vague.