Real Super Powers

In 1555, Nostradamus created several books involving 'predictions' he had claimed he had forseen. Here is one of the many hundereds he predicted:

He wrote:
The young lion will overcome the older one, in a field of combat in a single fight: He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage; two wounds in one, then he dies a cruel death.

What happened:
Four years later, in July 1559, King Henry II of France, who sometimes used the lion as his emblem, engaged in a jousting contest. The lance of his young opponent pierced the king's gilt helmet and wounded him; Henry died after prolonged agony.