Nostradamus and Obadiah's prophecy
The Frenchman Michel de Nostradamus lived from 1503 to 1566. He was by profession an apothecary—a hybrid chemist and drug dealer. In 1550 he published an almanac with zodiac predictions that were all the vogue, and for some reason are still found in magazines today, known as horoscopes. He fancied himself an astrologer but was so bad at doing the zodiac calculations that he usually insisted that his customers hire another astrologer to do the calculations of their birth year and zodiac charts first and then he would merely interpret them. He got quite good at describing the future predictions in such a way that people could in retrospect see how his words fit their situation. These predictions were so vague they could not be understood except with hindsight. He was the forefather of the “You will meet a tall dark stranger” prediction – just before his gullible client gets run over by a brown horse and everyone says, “Aha! Nostradamus predicted that.” In his lifetime Nostradamus became
