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Nostradamus and Prophecy
Nostradamus scholarship and Western prophetic literature: Charles A. Ward's annotated study of the Prophecies.
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Mother Shipton Investigated — William H. HarrisonWilliam H. Harrison's 1881 debunking of the Mother Shipton legend, tracing the popular prophecies back to a forged 1862 pamphlet and the earlier 1684 chapbook that invented her life story.Oracles of Nostradamus — Charles A. WardCharles A. Ward's 1891 study of Nostradamus, matching the sixteenth-century quatrains against two and a half centuries of French history from Henri II to Napoleon III.The Prophecies of Paracelsus — tr. J.KThirty-two cryptic woodcut prophecies attributed to Paracelsus, translated by "J.K." in 1915 with Eliphas Levi's preface, each figure paired with its riddling prognostication.