Mabus is the supposed third "Anti-Christ" predicted by the diviner Nostradamus. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Antichrist. ... Divination is the occultic practice of ascertaining information by supernatural means. ... Nostradamus: original portrait by his son Cesar Michel de Nostredame (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566), usually Latinized to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous world-wide. ...

The First Anti-Christ: Pau, Nay, Loron

The first antichrist Nostradamus is thought to have predicted in his prophetic quatrains was Napoleon Bonaparte, based on an anagram taken from Century 8, Quatrain 1... In Christian eschatology the Antichrist or Anti-christ (literally: anti, opposite, for, or as; christ, messiah) has come to mean a person, image of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil. ... A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines. ... Bonaparte as general Napoleon Bonaparte ( 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a general of the French Revolution and was the ruler of France as First Consul (Premier Consul) of the French Republic from November 11, 1799 to May 18, 1804, then as Emperor of the French (Empereur des... An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once; e. ...

Pau, Nay, Loron will be more of fire than of the blood
To swim in praise, the great one to flee to the confluence.
He will refuse entry to the Piuses,
The depraved ones and the Durance will keep them imprisoned.

"PAU, NAY, LORON" when rearranged becomes NAPAULON ROY, or Napoleon the King, given the Corsican spelling of his name, Napauleone.

The Second Anti-Christ: Hister

The second antichrist was thought to be Adolf Hitler, based largely on Century 2, Quatrain 24, in which Nostradamus appears to come close to correctly spelling his name... In Christian eschatology the Antichrist or Anti-christ (literally: anti, opposite, for, or as; christ, messiah) has come to mean a person, image of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil. ... Hitler redirects here. ...

Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.
Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,
When the child of Germany observes nothing.

The Third Anti-Christ: Mabus

The third, not-yet-identified antichrist is referred to as "Mabus" in Century 2, Quatrain 62... In Christian eschatology the Antichrist or Anti-christ (literally: anti, opposite, for, or as; christ, messiah) has come to mean a person, image of a person, or other entity that is the embodiment of evil. ...

Mabus will soon die, then will come,
A horrible undoing of people and animals,
At once one will see vengeance,
One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

Based on the reading of the quatrain, many also believe Mabus is not actually an evil figure, but rather one whose death will serve as a significant precursor to the emergence of another "king of terror", as mentioned in Century 10, Quatrain 72...

The year 1999 seven month, (there is controversy surrounding the interpretation of this date)
From the sky will come a great King of terror
To bring back to life the great King of Angolmois, (the Mongols),
Before after Mars to reign by good luck.

Current favorites for the person who may turn out to be Mabus include:
Mahmoud Abbas
George W Bush
Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden
Vladimir Putin Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: محمود عباس) (born March 26, 1935), commonly known by the kunya or nom de guerre Abu Mazen (ابو مازن), was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on January 9, 2005, and took office on January 15, 2005. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001 and re-elected in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. ... Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. ... Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957[1]), most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi Arabian militant Islamist and is widely believed to be one of the founders of the organization called al-Qaeda. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (Russian: ) (born October 7, 1952) is the current president of Russia. ...