Nostradamus' 2026 quatrains predicting a 'seven-month war,' a deadly 'swarm of bees' and a thunderbolt death for a 'great man' are being linked by modern interpreters to real-world conflict zones, celebrity culture and even Switzerland, where one verse appears to foretell the Alpine nation being 'soaked in blood' when the year arrives.
The 16th-century French astrologer set out his visions for the future in hundreds of opaque four-line poems, and a fresh cluster of them is now being pinned, somewhat anxiously, to 2026.
