Did you know there was a Scottish Nostradamus? In an article on Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer has the story of this lost seer of the British Isles.
Coinneach Odhar, later known as the Brahan Seer, was purportedly born within the Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland, in the early 17th century, putting him in the same relative era as the better-documented astrologer Michel de Nostredame. Legend has it that Odhar was a farmer who later discovered he’d inherited second sight when he peered through a hole in a blue and black Adder stone. When he gazed through the hole, he could see events that had not yet come to pass.
Odhar allegedly predicted the Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil between government troops and the Jacobite rebels, a half century before it happened; and the construction of of the Caledonian Canal, which joins the three lochs, Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy. He was also said to have predicted railways, the discovery of oil in the North Sea, the construction of the Chunnel, and the establishment of a Scottish Parliament.
Odhar was executed for witchcraft, but not before cursing his executioners with a lengthy list of dooms that all came true. We think there’s more to the story. What happens next?
