The claim
Nostradamus is credited with “predicting” the wave of refugees through his alleged verse “And they will come over the sea like locusts, but they will not be animals.”
Our conclusion
There is no record of Nostradamus ever writing such a verse. This means that the interpretation of these lines in relation to refugees is no longer valid.
Quotes from Nostradamus have been interpreted as prophecies for decades, so that the French astrologer and physicist is often referred to as a prophet.
The quote about locusts that is said to have come from his pen is often associated with refugees on social media. And that has been the case for several years. We already in 2019 .
The alleged quote from Nostradamus
On social media, the quote is shared again and again in different ways and in different forms. Often with a short expression of his own opinion, such as: “They have been coming since 2015 & are moving across our country” (sic!)

Here Nostradamus is credited with having foreseen the wave of refugees. Our question: How often does this “prediction” apply? Unique? Then, if we go by the first posting in the screenshot, it would have already been fulfilled in 2015? Or can you pull it out of the hat every time it suits your needs? – “Oh, look, that’s still good, we can use it again in 2022.”
Assuming that Nostradamus had ever phrased this quote that way.
Did he actually write it that way?
Nostradamus was already known during his lifetime for his poems – quatrains, so-called “centuries”. Among these there are exactly four pieces in which he writes about locusts:
Freins , Antibol, cities near Nice,
Century III, verse 82
are devastated, strong by sea and earth.
The locusts , earth and sea in a favorable wind,
prisoners, dead, mistreated, shot, without martial law.
Wood shavings, fertile northern Italy;
Century IV, verse 48
expanded, produce
so many flies (horseflies) and locusts (the) clarity of the sun deviates into the cloudy,
eat everything, great plague comes through it.
Among the (also: because of) the Swabians and the surrounding places
Century V, verse 85
there will be disputes about the cause of the clouds,
naval camps, ears of grass* and burdocks*,
guilt/mistakes from Geneva (Switzerland) will be fully disclosed.
* also: grasshoppers and beetles (mosquitoes).
On the mountain of Bailly and la Bresse (?)
Centurie IX, verse 69
the proud/confidants of Grenoble will be hidden,
beyond Lyon, Vienna.
This in heavy hail, locusts on land, not a third will remain.
The words as written in the sharepics cannot be found here.
Conclusion
What to think of Nostradamus' prophecies is up to each individual.
In any case, he never wrote down the above and often quoted verse in any similar form in any century.
Source:
Nostradamus prophecies
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