"A great nation across the ocean, peopled by many tribes and descents, will be devastated by earthquake, storm and waves, and much of it will be submerged. "

"In 2025 there will be a population decline across Europe. "

"Two popes would suffer harm or be assassinated before the year 2000. "

"Before Poland I see brightness and an ascent upward. It will be very good. "

"The nations of Europe will bow to Poland. I see a map of Europe, I see the Polish eagle in a crown; Poland shines like the sun. "

"In the Sharon Tate murders I will lead investigators to the perpetrators. "

"A fiery dragon will cross the sky six times before the earth shall die. "

"I see the skyscrapers collapsing; America will wage war in the East all the time and never win again. "

"Among the test variations used with Ossowiecki, an experiment was reported in which a drawing was hidden inside a sealed lead pipe, intended to rule out reading by translucency or envelope manipulation; it was reported as successful. "

"In another test variation the target was written in invisible (sympathetic) ink, undetectable to the naked eye, to make ordinary visual reading harder; this trial too was reported as a success for Ossowiecki. "

"If they spill my blood, for twenty-five years they will not wash it from their hands, and black bandits will ravage Russia. "

"A great political scandal involving the Caillaux family will erupt (prediction attributed to Madame de Thèbes). "

"Three hungry serpents will crawl along the roads of Europe, leaving behind ash and smoke. "

"Cheiro is said to have foretold the outbreak of the Boer War. "

"Cheiro reportedly read Oscar Wilde's hands (allegedly without knowing whose they were) and warned that, though at the height of his fame, his right hand foretold ruin. "

"General Georges Boulanger faces a violent death (prediction attributed to Madame de Thèbes). "

"The whole world will be plagued by a strange disease and nobody will be able to find a cure; everybody will say "I know, I know", and nobody will know anything. "

"People will become so wise through some strange science that the more they know, the less they will love and care for each other. Man will trust his gadget more than his nearest neighbour. "

"People will drill wells deep in the ground and dig out gold, which will give them light, speed and power, and the earth will shed tears because of these open wounds. "

"The whole country will be so utterly desolated and depopulated that the crow of a cock shall not be heard north of Druim-Uachdair; the people will emigrate to Islands now unknown (...) after which the people will then return. "