Nostradamus C2 Q77: The child born using black magic arts escapes pursuers.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

This verse continues the scene from the previous verse (C2 Q76) but here the Cyprianus clue ( ys Par cuni - cule) and the last line of text imply black magic practitioners flee the city with their new-born child.

The city is not only besieged by its opponents, but is also hit by a lava flow.

The time setting for these events is in the era when mutation via exposures ( x repouſſe) to the powers ( ux repou) of uranic ( ar cunic) nuclei ( nicule) causes sickness such as pox ( x po) amongst the populace.

This is the only verse to carry an anagram for futures ( teurs fu) and this being adjacent to that for 'Cyrianus clue' helps identify this event as part of the story of a newly evolved species. This theme can be found in expanded forms in many of the nearby verses.

# Parca: One of the three Roman goddesses of fate whose responsibility was for the oversight of birth as the baby separated from its mother.
# Cyprianus: a name given in Danish tradition to any collection of black magic spells used in folklore.