Nostradamus free e-book novel - The Greatest Sinner Ever

“Funny you should say that. I was just thinking about the story where
someone gets punished by being put in the sky as a star. It’s about Orion,
who was chasing his seven sisters, the Pleiades. The sisters felt threatened
by the chase and prayed for help, which caused the goddess of the hunt to
come to their rescue and she killed their brother with one of her arrows.
Then Orion was placed in the sky as a star. But I don’t know if that’s
possible for people made out of flesh and blood too, Michel. Although, I
just remembered, there is some mention of it in the old scriptures. So, who
knows? By the way, the Pleiades are visible with the naked eye. Look,
they’re right there,” and Jean stretched his arm toward the black sky.
“Those stars look like they’re touching each other,” the boy remarked.
“Yes, it does look that way, but in reality they are very far away from each
other.”
When spring came around, Grandpa showed Michel the stars Arcturus,
Regulus and the sparkling Spica, the brightest stars in the spring sky,
which together formed the Spring Triangle. That summer, the stars were
not very clearly visible and it wasn’t until autumn that grandfather showed
the winged horse, Pegasus, which is often difficult to find, because it is
up-side-down. Through these little excursions, Michel got to know the
constellations and his parents kept grumbling that he and his grandfather
came home so late at night.
One clear evening, when Jean had once again taken his grandson out, the
weather suddenly changed and turned gloomy. No celestial bodies were
visible and Michel cursed the dark clouds that were gathering. That night,
the little rascal was tossing and turning in his bed, which was separated
from other sleeping places with long curtains, and couldn’t sleep. He was
still angry and disappointed, when suddenly, the window shutters blew
open and a furious tornado pulled him out of his bed. He just managed to
grab hold of the window sill, with his body dangling outside. Reynière
was woken up at that very moment by maternal instinct, shook her
husband awake and together they ran to the child who was in mortal peril.
Together, the two of them pulled the child back into the room and shut the
window tightly. Not really realizing what had happened, they went back to
sleep, and a short time later, the window was pulled open once more.
Again, the whirlwind directed its energy toward the gifted child, with a
seething fury, but his parents were there in a heartbeat and defeated the
catastrophe before he was sucked out of the room. The shutters were
nailed shut permanently. This was a lesson their son would never forget.
No more cursing anyone or anything, he resolved.
One day, a message arrived from Pierre de Nostredame, Michel’s paternal
grandfather. Pierre and his wife lived in Grasse and invited the whole
family to come and stay with them for a few weeks. Pierre had also been a
court physician, in the service of the son of the Good King René. After his
patient was murdered in Barcelona, Pierre settled in the developing
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