Alessandro di Cagliostro was a rather flamboyant 18th century prophet. Hated by the Catholic Church, imprisoned by the French for fraud, and temerarious enough to give himself the title of Count, Cagliostro is normally the type of man to disregard as a charlatan. Except that he was often right, particularly when talking about the future […]
In 1966 with her vision of the exact dates for a great Chicago blizzard, Irene Hughes soon became known widely as the “Chicago Seeress.” She has foretold deaths, assassinations, marriages, divorces, winning teams in sports, major weather disasters, and the outcome of elections. Notarized statements, personal letters of affirmation, and newspaper records, have validated her
In the world of psychics and parapsychology, there are some legendary names and contributors who are established as legends. In the1900’s, paranormal activity such as this was anything but popular nor were such phenomenon considered to be things that should be studied scientifically and put into mainstream thought and culture. Despite the obstacles to the
Peter Hurkos is considered by experts to have been the world’s foremost psychic. Born May 21, 1911, in Dordrecht, Holland (died June1, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA), he acquired his psychic gift in 1941 after falling from a ladder and suffering a brain injury. He was in a coma for three days at the Zuidwal
Joan Ceciel Quigley (April 10, 1927 – October 21, 2014), of San Francisco, California, was an astrologer best known for her astrological advice to the Reagan White House in the 1980s. Quigley was born in Kansas City, Missouri.She was called on by First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1981 after John Hinckley’s attempted assassination of the
Jeane L. Dixon (January 5, 1904 – January 25, 1997) was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling biography.Early lifeDixon was born Lydia Emma Pinckert to German immigrants, Gerhart and Emma Pinckert, in Medford, Wisconsin, but raised
Karl Ernst Krafft (10 May 1900 – 8 January 1945) was a Swiss astrologer, born in Basel. He worked on the fields of astrology and graphology.Astrology careerAfter graduating from university in mathematics, for the best part of ten years he worked on a massive book entitled Traits of Astro-Biology. This expounded his own theory of
William John Warner, known as Cheiro, (November 1, 1866 – October 8, 1936) was an Irish astrologer and colorful occult figure of the early 20th century. His sobriquet, Cheiro, derives from the word cheiromancy, meaning palmistry. He was a self-described clairvoyant who taught palmistry, astrology, and Chaldean numerology. During his career, he was celebrated for
Marie Anne Adelaïde Lenormand was born on May 27, 1772, in Alençon, a small town about fifty miles from Paris, in the family of a rich draper. After the death of her parents, Marie went to live with her stepfather and was regularly visiting a gypsy camp near the city wall, where a gypsy woman
The Brahan Seer, known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar, and Kenneth Mackenzie, was, according to legend, a predictor of the future who lived in the 17th century.In the year 1600, Coinneach (Kenneth in Gaelic) Odhar was born on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Odhar was a poor farm labourer
Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American mystic who allegedly possessed the ability to answer questions on subjects as varied as healing, reincarnation, wars, Atlantis and future events while in a trance. These answers came to be known as “life readings of the entity” and were usually delivered to individuals
On a dark and stormy night in 1488 a young woman lay in a dark cave on the banks of the River Nidd in Knaresborough in North Yorkshire struggling to give birth to her illegitimate daughter. As the rain lashed down and the lightning crackled across the sky, Agnes Sontheil laboured through the night until
John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, imperialis and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy.Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as they were becoming distinguishable. One of the most
Luca Gaurico (in Latin, Lucas Gauricus) (March 12, 1475 – March 6, 1558 in Rome) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician. He was born to a poor family in the Kingdom of Naples, and studied judicial astrology, a subject he defended in his Oratio de Inventoribus et Astrologiae Laudibus (1508). Judicial astrology concerned the
Michel de Nostredame (depending on the source, 14 or 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties, the first edition of which appeared in 1555.