STRANGE PROPHECIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 90, 6 August 1914, Page 4

STRANGE PROPHECIES.

Tho Lyttelton Times recalls that at ih'e present time many strange prophecies concerning the future of Euripe have been made. To one of • hem some weight is attached, he'an.se the first part of if has already been fulfilled. This particular prodiecy was made by the groat Italian mtriot .Maz/iui. He foretold the day rben the power of the Turk in Europe would be finally overthrown by a combination of the Balkan hates, and that occurred not so very eng ago. Arising out of that event, [the Italian added, and consequent upon the clnliges made, would follow tho collalso of the Dual Mon-archy—Anstrii-Hnngary. Xot long Igo certain plnphccios were recalled n became so general the n^Bjjrvhimself had to take i ‘ pc to voml the superstition of b\ subjects, without much sn'e'’ess. In provinces die people •yi™ Bo mind a prophecy mule centimes®** by a monk named Hennin, Ho unnonneed that one day !<?io Hohonzollern dynasty would he ■'•e-estahlished, but that the third Emperor of that great family would ome to a violent end and that the lynasty would fall with him. In other parts a well-known prophecy is that made by Saint Ingobert a mm, who is said to have made many orophecies which subsequently were fulfilled. “When Germany is at its greatest,” said Saint Ingehert. “the fall will come. 1 see rivers of blood in all the German valleys, and Sossack horses drinking in bo waters of the Elbe and of die Rhino.” People may smile at irophccies. but Renan, by no means i superstitious man, said: “Through

tit the history of the world, when-

ever great events have been about' 1 to happen, vague rumors, sometimes precise and nearly always realised, I have warned nations of the danger j with which they are threatened. I can but point out thiis mysterious instinct. 1 cannot explain it.”