() Then he cuts off before the prophetic verse 13 of Psalms 91, "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon (tanniyn) shalt thou trample under feet."

Rek studied the stars and remembered the sightless seer and his prophetic verse.

Hosni, remembering the prophetic verse, warns them not to step into the water, but he is ignored.

History gave us records of prophetic verses, written in far more memorable poetry than this.

Sir Thomas was born in Erceldoune (also spelled Ercildoune - presently Earlston), Berwickshire, sometime in the 13th century, and has a reputation as the author of many prophetic verses.

Most notably the world was supposed to explode this past July, according to Nostradamus, who wrote cryptic prophetic verses in 1555 and usually hated to give a verifiable date.

But are Yeats's eerie, prophetic verses applicable to recent political and economic upheavals?

It was in this period that a large body of popular prophetic verse about Y Mab Darogan began to circulate, often referring to him as "Owain".

A prophetic verse on the wine-house wall foretells doom.

The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557.