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Nostradamus: A History of Misinterpretation.
16:58 - 21:00 (04:02)
Nostradamus's quatrains have been widely misinterpreted, and any failed predictions are often justified after the fact.
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Nostradamus ingested nutmeg or would take a bowl with herbs to help him achieve a trance-like state and supposedly convoluted his prophecies on purpose to avoid persecution.
16:58 - 18:40 (01:42)
Nostradamus
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Nostradamus ingested nutmeg or would take a bowl with herbs to help him achieve a trance-like state and supposedly convoluted his prophecies on purpose to avoid persecution. However, his prophecies did not come to him in a convoluted manner.
ChapterNostradamus: A History of Misinterpretation.
EpisodeSelects: Nostradamus: Predictor of the future? Not so much.
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Claims of Nostradamus's ability to predict the future are often based on vague and ambiguous interpretations of his quatrains, allowing for a wide range of potential meanings.
18:40 - 21:00 (02:20)
Nostradamus
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Claims of Nostradamus's ability to predict the future are often based on vague and ambiguous interpretations of his quatrains, allowing for a wide range of potential meanings. One example of this phenomena involves an alleged prediction of the events of 9/11, which is based on loose translation and interpretation of his work.