In this unique book, Charles Neilson Gattey recounts the stranger-than-fiction life-stories of the most astounding seers and sorcerers of all time. Such well-known characters as Nostradamus and Cheiro are here in all their brilliant and bizarre detail — including the former's visions of the Second World War and a bleak outlook for Britain towards the end of the 20th century and the latter's predictions of Edward VIII's romance and abdication — as well as such lesser-known but equally intriguing figures as Mile Lenormande, clairvoyante and confidante of the Empress Josephine and Ernst Krafft, alleged by some to have been Hitler's personal astrologer.

Stretching from the Delphic Pythias of Ancient Greece to Jeane Dixon, the extraordinary American who predicted exactly the assassination of President Kennedy, this gallery of mesmerizing sages includes: Nostradamus, The Brahan Seer, Cagliostro, Dr Dee, Mile Lenormande, Cheiro, Krafft, The Pythia, The Premonitions Bureau and many others.