"Monsters can mean "not well-mannered people" or pertain to legends. The criteria for regrouping the quatrains are based on some identified keywords."
Monsters
The monsters are numerous in the Centuries. Some may refer to the consequences of an ecological disaster.
A6303 Great - monster pestilent
Fathers and mothers dead of infinite sorrows,
Women in mourning, the pestilent she-monster:
The Great One to be no more, all the world to end,
Under peace, repose and every single one in opposition.
1.80 Monster, very hideous beast
From the sixth bright celestial light
it will come to thunder very strongly in Burgundy.
Then a monster will be born of a very hideous beast:
"In March, April, May and June great wounding and worrying."
1.90 Monster near Orgon
Bordeaux and Poitiers at the sound of the bell
will go with a great fleet as fast as Langon.
"A great rage will surge up against the French,"
when a hideous monster is born near Orgon.
3.41 Monster, Prelate blind - Mazarine
"Hunchback will be elected by the council,"
"A more hideous monster not seen on earth,"
The willing blow will put out his eye:
The traitor to the King received as faithful.
A5704 Monster, advise, child
Disloyal fact, put in enemies' hands
Taken, at night, between, out, sinister intruders
Monster, the great advise(r) good, the child put
Ambush to his, and to Heries islands.
6.19 Monster in a bull, lady in flame
The true flame will devour the lady
Who will want to put the Innocent Ones to the fire:
"Before the assault the army is inflamed,"
When in Seville a monster in beef will be seen.
2.32 Monster naistra dans Ravenna, Dalmatia
"Milk, frog's blood prepared in Dalmatia."
"Conflict given, plague near Treglia:"
"A great cry will sound through all Slavonia,"
Then a monster will be born near and within Ravenna.
9.3 Monster naistra, Ravenna
"The great cow at Racenna in great trouble,"
Led by fifteen shut up at Fornase:
"At Rome there will be born two double-headed monsters,"
"Blood, fire, flood, the greatest ones in space."
5.20 Monster will born
"The great army will pass beyond the Alps,"
Shortly before will be born a monster scoundrel:
Prodigious and sudden he will turn
The great Tuscan to his nearest place.
6.44 Monster will born in Sax, Arabic war
"By night the Rainbow will appear for Nantes,"
By marine arts they will stir up rain:
"In the Gulf of Arabia a great fleet will plunge to the bottom,"
In Saxony a monster will be born of a bear and a sow.
2.70 Monster human brute
"The dart from the sky will make its extension,"
Deaths speaking: great execution.
"The stone in the tree, the proud nation restored,"
"Noise, human monster, purge expiation."
A6305 Monster killed, not necessarily the Shaking of May
Land to tremble, killed, wasteful, monster,
Captives without number, to do, undone, done:
To go over the sea misfortune will occur,
Proud against the proud evil done in disguise
Posted by: Laury
Possible link with the quatrain that refers to "Cassich St-George" and possible link with I-020 through the word "sea".
5.88 Sea monster
"Through a frightful flood upon the sand,"
A marine monster from other seas found:
"Near the place will be made a refuge,"
Holding Savona the slave of Turin.
3.21 Sea monster
In the Conca by the Adriatic Sea
"There will appear a horrible fish,"
"With face human and its end aquatic,"
Which will be taken without the hook.
3.34 Monster seen
"When the eclipse of the Sun will then be,"
The monster will be seen in full day:
"Quite otherwise will one interpret it,"
High price unguarded: none will have foreseen it.
Beasts
Most beasts seem to refer to humans and are linked to the Bible prophecies of Revelations.
1.45 Sects
"A founder of sects, much trouble for the accuser:"
A beast in the theater prepares the scene and plot.
The author ennobled by acts of older times;
the world is confused by schismatic sects.
9.55 France, Horrible war in occident
"The horrible war which is being prepared in the West,"
The following year will come the pestilence
"So very horrible that young, old, nor beast,"
"Blood, fire Mercury, Mars, Jupiter in France."
2.24 R in child - Rhine - Hister
Beasts ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers:
"The greater part of the region will be against the Hister,"
"The great one will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage,"
When the German child will observe nothing.
1.80 Very hideous beast
From the sixth bright celestial light
it will come to thunder very strongly in Burgundy.
Then a monster will be born of a very hideous beast:
"In March, April, May and June great wounding and worrying."
10.29 Watchdog beast / China / Great Morning
In a cave of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole a goat
Hidden and seized pulled out by the beard:
Led captive like a mastiff beast
By the Bigorre people brought to near Tarbes.
1.64 Half man pig
"At night they will think they have seen the sun,"
when the see the half pig man:
"Noise, screams, battles seen fought in the skies."
The brute beasts will be heard to speak.
Mutations
Mutations are the consequences of the evolution of the human species or of ecological disasters.
10.10 Enemy of mankind
"Stained with murder and enormous adulteries,"
Great enemy of the entire human race:
"One who will be worse than his grandfathers, uncles or fathers,"
"In steel, fire, waters, bloody and inhuman."
Cannibalism
At the time the Centuries were written, some scary tales described the African and Oriental people as potential human flesh eaters. But these quatrains may also refer to a certain future when humans will become toddle savages.
2.75 Eating fellow humans
"The voice of the rare bird heard,"
On the pipe of the air-vent floor:
"So high will the bushel of wheat rise,"
That man will be eating his fellow man.
4.66 Seven Shaved heads, poison
Under the feigned color of seven shaven heads
Diverse spies will be scattered:
"Wells and fountains sprinkled with poisons,"
At the fort of Genoa devourers of men.
Posted by: John
Linked to the poison in the drinkable water spring nearby Genoa.
Murderers
Serial killers and murderers will not stop their misdoings before long.
6.92 Murder
"Prince of beauty so comely,"
"Around his head a plot, the second deed betrayed:"
"The city to the sword in dust the face burnt,"
Through too great murder the head of the King hated.
8.75 Father and son murdered
"The father and son will be murdered together,"
the leader within his pavilion.
"The mother at Tours will have her belly swollen with a son,"
a verdure chest with little pieces of paper.
Posted by: John
Another son and father that were assassinated. There are at least 3 of them in the Centuries. One is linked to the Final Conflict.
10.21 Murder
"Through the spite of the King supporting the lesser one,"
He will be murdered presenting the jewels to him:
The father wishing to impress nobility on the son
Does as the Magi did of yore in Persia.
3.18 Slaughter
"After the rather long rain milk,"
In several places in Reims the sky touched:
"Alas, what a bloody murder is prepared near them,"
Fathers and sons Kings will not dare approach.
4.86 Astrology, murderers
The year that Saturn will be conjoined in Aquarius
"With the Sun, the very powerful King"
"Will be received and anointed at Reims and Aix,"
After conquests he will murder the innocent.
A6300 Murder
The sane stomach and blood, but moved agreeing in nothing,
Infinite murders, captives, death, prevented,
So much water & plague, little of everything blow the horn,
Taken, deaths, fleet, great becoming, has come (Venus)
