The Prophecies of Mitar Tarabich
The Prophecies of Mitar Tarabich
The Prophecies of Mitar Tarabich
NEO
The Prophecies of
Mitar Tarabich
Editing and Commentary
by Neo
Extracted from Nexus Magazine
Volume 13, Number 1
December 2005 - January 2006
from NexusMagazine Website
Editor’s Note:
Neo, the originator of this article, advises that all credit should go
to Mitar Tarabich, Zaharije Zaharich and the person who translated
these prophecies from Serbian to English. Note that we have retained
his anglicized spellings of Serbian names.
Mitar Tarabich (1829–1899), an illiterate peasant from the small Serbian village
of Kremna, experienced occasional prophetic visions. Being a religious person and
having a local Serbian orthodox priest for a godfather, he told this priest about his
episodes of "seeing into the future".
You should note that Tarabich’s words are translated from Serbo-Croatian and that the
translation is not necessarily in its final form. You may notice that some of the phrasing
in the quotes is awkward and rough; this is an accurate reflection of his rural accent.
Tarabich’s words come from conversations with his godfather Zaharich, so you should
be aware that any references to "you" or "your descendants" relate to Zaharich (the
priest) specifically. When Tarabich says "us" he means the Serbs, but he does not
distinguish between Croats, Serbs, Slovenians, etc. To him, anyone who spoke his
language was a Serb. Perhaps it is also important to note that we don’t really know
how much of Tarabich’s prophecies was influenced by his own opinion. Some of the
adjectives used to describe the people and events he saw could be a reflection of his
"peasant-like" interpretation of those events (examples: intelligent, brave, honest,
horrible, calamity, etc.).
Historical Facts:
• 1903 – Alexander and Draga Obrenovich were assassinated by
their own guards, and Petar Karageorgevich became the ruler of
Serbia.
• 1912 – The First Balkan War erupted between the Balkan
Alliance (Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Montenegro) and Turkey
(Ottoman Empire). The Balkan Alliance won, and Serbia moved its
border up to the River Lim. Serbia gained Kosovo from the Turks.
2. "Soon after this war, another war will start...the Big War in which a
lot of blood will be spilled. If that blood were a river, a huge stone
of 300 kilograms would roll in its current easily. A mighty army from
across a river, three times bigger than ours, will attack us... They
will destroy everything on their way. They penetrate deep into our
land... Hard times will come upon us... Our army will almost give
up, but than suddenly an intelligent man on a black stallion will
take command and cry out, ’Forward to victory, my people!
Forward, brother Serbs!’ Our army springs to life. Its fighting spirit
wakes up and the enemy is chased away across the river..."
Historical Facts:
• 1914 – The Austro-Hungarian Empire started a war against
Serbia after a Serb nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the
heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and his
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wife in Sarajevo. This regional war soon developed into World War
I (with 32 nations involved). In the beginning, Austria conquered
the northern and central parts of Serbia easily but when General
Alexandar Mishich—the man on a black stallion—took command,
the Serbian armies were able to repel the Austrian invaders back
across the River Drina until October 1915.
3. "Then an even greater army will come from the north and run over
us. Our land will be devastated. We will be dying of hunger and
sickness in great numbers. For three years, Serbia will live in total
darkness. During that time, our wounded army will be abroad.
They will stay in a place surrounded by the sea and will be fed and
nursed by friends from over the seas. Then, their wounds healed,
they will come back home in ships. They will free Serbia and all of
the territories where our brothers live."
Historical Facts:
• The Germans started their attack from the north and by
December 1915 had defeated the Serbs. The Serbian Army and
Government fled to the Greek island of Kérkira (Corfu) in 1916.
There they regrouped, and after a full recovery they sailed for
Salonika where they formed a new front with other allied armies.
After much heavy fighting, Serbia was finally free and reunited with
the other southern Slav nations (Croats and Slovenians), whose
territories had been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During
the German occupation, a large number of people in Serbia died of
hunger and sickness.
4. "I will tell you one more thing, father: the invading army will come to
Kremna exactly on your baptismal day, stay for three years and go
away on the same day they came—St Luke’s Day. But you will not
see the end of the war. In the last year of the world’s big carnage,
you will die. Both these wars, the one with the Turks and the big
one when the whole world will be at war, will take away two of your
grandchildren—one before, and the other after your death."
Historical Facts:
• The Germans entered Kremna on St Luke’s Day, and the village
was liberated on exactly the same date three years later. Zaharije
Zaharich died in 1918, the last year of World War I, which also
took the lives of two of his grandchildren—one before, and one
after his death.
Historical Facts:
• 1918 – The Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved. In
December 1918 a new State, officially titled the Kingdom of the
Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was proclaimed. It was constantly
riddled with economic, social and political problems caused mostly
by conflicts between various nationalistic political parties.
2. "For some years we shall live in peace, love and prosperity. But it
will not last for long. A venomous hatred will come into our
people... Blood is spilled...horrible! I do not know when or why, but
it is probably because of this hatred."
Historical Facts:
• Serbian domination of the government and a multiplicity of
political parties, and denial of autonomy to the Croats, Slovenes
and other minority groups, engendered intense political strife in the
kingdom. Under the guidance of Stjepan Radich, the Croats and
their allies systematically struggled against the centralist system
and leadership. The first phase of the struggle ended when, in
June 1928, a Montenegrin deputy in the national Parliament fatally
shot Radich and two of his parliamentary colleagues. In retaliation,
the Croats withdrew from the Parliament and organised a
separatist regime, with headquarters in Zagreb. Civil war seemed
imminent, but in January 1929 King Alexander (the Serbian king)
suspended the 1921 constitution, dissolved Parliament and all
political parties and assumed dictatorial control of the government.
The king, thus hoping to impose national unity, subsequently
abolished the traditional provinces and changed the name of the
State to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ("Land of the South Slavs").
3. "Then the one who sits on the throne of our kingdom is killed. He
will leave behind a widow and orphans. A relative of his will
replace him on the throne, and he will try to rule justly and take
good care of his cousin’s children. But people do not love him, and
he is accused of being an unjust ruler. He is dethroned and
imprisoned by his army. His life will be saved by England’s king
and queen. Then, on the empty throne, our killed king’s boy sits.
But he will rule only for a few days. He will be taken by his soldiers
over the seas because our kingdom is again invaded by a foreign,
evil army. All of Europe is under the rule of the crooked anti-cross."
Historical Facts:
• On 9 October 1934, a Macedonian terrorist connected with
Croatian separatist groups assassinated King Alexander, then in
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4. "In the beginning, Russia will not wage war; but when attacked by
the evil army, they will fight back. There is a red czar on the
Russian throne."
Historical Facts:
• When Nazi Germany started World War II, the USSR (Russia)
remained neutral. On 22 June 1941, more than three million
German troops invaded the USSR. Under Communist Party leader
Joseph Stalin, the USSR fought back.
5. "Here, men with stars on their foreheads will appear. They will rule
Uzice and this region for exactly 73 days, and then fleeing their
enemies they will go over the River Drina. These are times of
hunger and great evil... Serbs will fight and butcher each other.
The invading enemy looks upon Serbian evil hatred and laughs at
us. A man with blue eyes on a white horse appears among our
people. A star shines on his forehead. The evil enemy will hunt
him all over our country, in the woods, over rivers and upon the
sea, but in vain. The man will gather a mighty army and free
occupied Belgrade. He will chase away the enemy from our
country, and our kingdom will be bigger than ever. Russia will
make an alliance with other great kingdoms over the seas, and
they will burn down the crooked anti-cross and free all the
enslaved people of Europe."
Historical Facts:
• In Yugoslavia the Communist Party, led by Croatian communist
Josip Broz Tito—the man with blue eyes on a white horse—started
the resistance against the Germans and Italians as well as against
the Serb and Croat nationalist extremists who were waging war
against each other. The symbol of Tito’s Communist Party was a
red star, which they wore on their hats.
• The first territory liberated by Tito and his army was the region
around the city of Uzice. They held it against German and Italian
forces for exactly 73 days, and then Tito and his army were forced
to flee over the River Drina to Bosnia. Guerrilla war was fought all
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over Yugoslavia.
• By May 1945, the Germans were defeated by the alliance of the
USSR, USA, UK and France, and by the end of the year
Yugoslavia was united. Tito entered Belgrade on a white horse
and made the Royal Palace his residence. Communist Yugoslavia
was formed, and gained more territories from the neighbouring
state of Italy.
Predictions and Events following the End of World War II (1946 to present)
[Editor’s note: Unlike the previous writings, the priest Zaharich is now speaking directly
in his diary about his conversations with Mitar Tarabich.]
1. "Mitar told me that the man with blue eyes and the star upon his
forehead would break the long-lasting love with our Christian
Orthodox brothers, the Russians. He would not be grateful to them
for the fact that he was sitting on our throne because they had put
him there in the first place. A great hatred would erupt between us
and the Russians. Blood would be spilled among our people.
These wounds would be quickly healed and we would again be
friends with the Russians, but never sincerely, only formally,
pretending for the sake of others not to understand how we cheat
and lie to each other."
Historical Facts:
• In 1948, Tito refused to accept orders from USSR leader Joseph
Stalin—the man who formed him politically in the early 1920s and
sent him back to Yugoslavia to organise a communist party. The
USSR denounced Tito, accusing him of major deviations from
orthodox communist policy. Tito purged and executed members of
his party who opposed this decision. Cordial relations with
communist USSR resumed after Stalin’s death in 1953.
Yugoslavia’s relationship with the democratic capitalist countries
caused mistrust with the USSR.
2. "After the Great War, peace will reign all over the world. Many new
states will appear...black, white, red and yellow. An international
court is formed, which does not allow countries to fight each other.
This court will be above all kings. Where a war starts, the court will
judge justly, trying to transform hatred and butchery into love and
peace. The lucky ones who live to see these times will be more
than happy."
Historical Facts:
• In December 1945, the United Nations (UN) was established.
Articles 33–38 of the charter authorize the Security Council to
encourage disputing nations to settle their differences through
peaceful means including negotiations, inquiry, mediation,
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3. "After a while some great kings, as well as some small ones, will
start to fake their respect for the court while doing whatever they
please... Many small wars will begin because of this... Thousands
upon thousands will die, but there will be no big wars."
Historical Facts:
• Korean War (1950–1953), Vietnam War (1959–1975),
Afghanistan War (1979–1988), Nicaragua and the Iran–Contra
scandal (1979–1989), etc.
4. "There will be a few wars around the kingdom of Israel, but sooner
or later the peace will come even there. In these wars, brothers
fight brothers; then they make peace and kiss each other, but their
hatred remains... All these small wars are initiated by the great
kingdoms because of their wickedness and malice; those who fight
and butcher each other do it because of their blind stupidity."
Historical Facts:
• In 1947, the State of Israel was founded in the Middle East. In
1967, a war—known as the Six-Day War—broke out between
Israel and its Arab neighbours. In 1975, civil war broke out in
Lebanon, with involvement of the Iranians, Syrians, Palestinians
and Israelis.
• Other wars included the Iraq–Iran War (1980–1988), the Iraq–
Kuwait War (1991), etc.
5. "In our country, the time of peace and prosperity will last for a long
time. Many a generation will be born to live and die in peace,
knowing about war only through wise books, words and different
strange apparitions."
Historical Facts:
• In 1965 and 1966, economic reforms in Yugoslavia produced
what has been called an economic revolution. Total industrial
production in 1957 increased by 70 per cent over that of 1953, and
by 1966 it was more than double the 1957 figure. By 1967, prices
had been stabilized, savings were increasing steadily and labour
productivity had risen by about seven per cent.
• TV and radio enjoyed a great boom in the 1950s and 1960s.
when they want to. Everybody will ride around in carts with no
oxen. People will travel in the sky, looking down upon our land as
if they had climbed on the doubled Tara Mountain."
Historical Facts:
• There was economic prosperity, coupled with the introduction of
the car, bus, van and air transportation (Yugoslavia started its own
airline company).
7. "Serbia will prosper best while the man with blue eyes on a white
horse governs, one who will come to Serbia bringing some kind of
new religion. He will ascend our throne, and will be strong and
healthy, living a long life close to one hundred years. He will very
much like to hunt, and one time while hunting he will accidentally
fall from his white horse and thus lose his leg. From this wound he
will die, not because of his great age."
Historical Facts:
• Tito’s leadership brought economic prosperity and communism to
Yugoslavia. Tito lived until 87 years of age (1892–1980). He did
not have a hunting accident but he enjoyed horse-riding and
hunting. The real cause of his death was diabetes, which caused
his leg to be amputated.
Historical Facts:
• After Tito’s death, Yugoslavia was ruled by "collective
presidency" until 1991. In the 1980s, tensions ran high in the
southern Serbian province of Kosovo, which had become
autonomous in 1968 after riots protesting against Serbian control.
Seeking more independence and calling for a separate republic,
the majority population of ethnic Albanians clashed with Serbians
and Montenegrins throughout the decade.
9. "On our borders and over them a new nation will appear. They will
grow like grass after a deluge. They will be good and honest, and
they will answer our hatred with reason. They will take care of
each other like brothers. And we, because of our madness, shall
think that we know everything and that we can do anything, and
we shall baptize them with some new fate of ours, but all that will
be in vain because they will believe only in themselves and in
nobody else. Big trouble will come of it, because this nation will be
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brave."
Historical Facts:
• After the parliaments of Croatia and Slovenia passed
declarations of independence on 25 June 1991, the Yugoslavian
Federal Government ordered the Serb-dominated army to
suppress the secessionists. A 10-day war was fought in Slovenia,
but ended with a Serb defeat. The war in Croatia lasted seven
months, ending in January 1992. These secessions and the
declaration of independence by the Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia in September 1991 marked the end of the de facto
existence of Yugoslavia. The similar declaration by Bosnia and
Herzegovina in March 1992, and the ensuing fighting, marked the
outbreak of the Bosnian–Croatian–Serbian War.
10. "Many summers this trouble will last, and nobody will be able to
stop it, because that nation will grow like grass. One who will be
born many summers after you will be honest and intelligent; he will
deal with them in peace. We shall live in peace—they there, us
here and there."
Historical Facts:
• The Bosnian–Croatian–Serbian War lasted for five years (1991–
1995). One of the major aspects of the conflict was international
involvement, both diplomatic and military (by NATO). The
international community took a series of limited measures
including peace initiatives and peace plans. "They there, us here
and there": after the war, ethnic Croatians lived only in Croatia
while ethnic Serbs lived in both Serbia and Croatia.
11. "You see, my godfather, when the world starts to live in peace and
abundance after the Second Big War, all of that will be just a bitter
illusion because many will forget God and they will worship only
their own human intelligence... And do you know, my godfather,
what is human intelligence compared to God’s will and
knowledge? Not even a single drop in the ocean."
Historical Facts:
• With the increase in scientific knowledge and the consequent
scientific explanation of phenomena formerly considered
supernatural, atheism became a more natural and less despised
philosophical trend.
12. "Men will build a box and within will be some kind of gadget with
images, but they will not be able to communicate with me already
dead, even though this image gadget will be as close to this other
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world as hairs on the human scalp are close to each other. With
the help of this image gadget, man will be able to see everything
that is happening all over the world."
Historical Facts:
• Invention of television and the computer.
• Influence of the Internet, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Fox News, CCTV,
etc.
• Searching Google with the search words "Ghost" and "Detector"
takes us to this entry:
1. "EMF Detectors. EMF detectors were designed to detect
electromagnetic emissions from microwave ovens and high-
tension electrical wires. EMF detectors alert investigators to
the presence of ghosts by measuring electromagnetic
distortion in the two to seven milligauss range. The models
that come most highly recommended by paranormal
investigators are the TriField EMF Detector and the TriField
Natural EM."
13. "People will drill wells deep in the ground and dig out gold, which
will give them light, speed and power, and the Earth will shed tears
of sorrow because there will be much more gold and light on its
surface than in its interior. The Earth will suffer because of these
open wounds. Instead of working in the fields, people will dig
everywhere, in right and wrong places, but the real power will be
all around them, not being able to tell them, ’Come on, take me;
don’t you see that I am here, all around you?’ Only after many a
summer, people will remember this real power, and then they will
realize how stupid it was to dig all those holes."
Historical Facts:
• Oil (petroleum), also known as "black gold", powers the car,
electric generator, plane, etc. Exploration to find oilfields is an
economically risky task, but in the 1980s the oil exploration
technique was perfected, although the risks of discovering
economically non-viable oilfields still existed. Oil experts have
estimated that by 2050, world oil reserves will run dry.
14. "This power will also be present in people, but it will take a long
time before they discover it and use it. Thus man will live for a
long, long time, not being able to know himself. There will be many
learned men who will think, through their books, that they know
and can do everything. They will be the great obstacle for this
realization (self-knowledge), but once men get this knowledge then
people will see what kind of delusion it was when they listened to
their learned men. When that happens, people will be so sorry that
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"People will do many stupid things, thinking that they know and
can do everything, not knowing anything. Wise men will appear in
the Orient, and their wisdom will cross all seas and frontiers, but
people will not trust this wisdom for a long time, and this real truth
they will proclaim for a lie. Their souls will not be possessed by the
Devil, but by something much worse. They will believe that their
illusion is the real truth, although there will be no truth in their
heads.
"Here at home it will be the same as all over the world. People will
start to hate clean air and this divine freshness and all divine
beauty, and will hide in rankness. Nobody will force them to do
that, but they will do it of their own free will. Here in Kremna, many
a field will become a meadow and many a home will be
abandoned, but then those who have left will come back to heal
themselves by breathing fresh air. In Serbia, it will not be possible
to distinguish a man from a woman. Everybody will dress the
same. This calamity will come to us from abroad, but it will stay
with us the longest. A groom will take a bride, but nobody will know
who is who. People will be lost and more and more senseless day
by day. Men will be born not knowing who was their grandfather
and great-grandfather. People will think that they know everything,
but not a thing they will know."
Historical Facts:
• As has been happening all over the world, people are leaving
rural areas to seek jobs in the big cities. More women are having
their hair cut short and are wearing trousers, as compared to the
time of Tarabich. Children born out of wedlock has become
commonplace.
15. "The Serbs will separate from each other and they will say, ’I am
not a Serb; I am not a Serb’. The unholy one will infiltrate this
nation and bed with Serbian sisters, mothers and wives. He will
sire such children that among the Serbs, since the beginning of the
world, these will be the worst of offspring. Only weaklings will be
born, and nobody will be strong enough to give birth to a real
hero."
Historical Facts:
• After the split of Yugoslavia into Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and
Kosovo, UN peacekeeping forces were stationed in the Balkan
states. Most of them were male, so there was the possibility of
their bedding Serbian females. Or this may refer to the
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16. "At one time we shall disappear from this land of ours. We shall go
to the north, and then realising our stupid deed we shall return.
When we come back, we shall wise up and chase away the unholy
one, not to see him, in God’s name, ever again."
Historical Facts:
• By the time the Balkan War ended in 1995, the Serbian, Croatian
and Bosnian economies were ruined and there was widespread
unemployment. Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian people have to go
to Germany, Denmark, Belgium, etc. in the north to work. In
Kosovo, Serbs have become refugees.
• As of June 2004, there were 200,000 Serb refugees from
Kosovo, and only 80,000 Serbs remained in Kosovo. As of March
2004, KFOR in Kosovo had 19,000 troops from a peak of 50,000;
and as of June 2004, SFOR in Bosnia had 7,000 troops from the
peak of 60,000.
• As of June 2004, there was news from Kosovo that ethnic
Albanians were chasing ethnic Serbs from Kosovo, using mob
riots to destroy churches and houses belonging to the Serbs, while
KFOR troops were behaving like lame ducks.
17. "The whole world will be plagued by a strange disease and nobody
will be able to find a cure; everybody will say, ’I know, I know,
because I am learned and smart’, but nobody will know anything.
People will think and think, but they will not be able to find the right
cure, which will be with God’s help, all around them and in
themselves.
18. "Man will travel to other worlds to find lifeless deserts there, and
still, God forgive him, he will think that he knows better than God
himself. There, except for the eternal peace of God, he will see
nothing, but he will sense with his heart and soul all of God’s
beauty and power. People will drive in rigs upon the Moon and
stars. They will look for life, but life similar to ours they will not find.
It will be there, but they will not be able to understand it and see
that it is life. One who goes there, God forgive him, not believing in
God as it is proper for an honourable and decent person, when he
comes back he will say, ’Oh, you people who mention God’s name
with doubt, go there where I was; then you will see what is God’s
mind and power’.
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19. "The more people will know, the less they will love and care for
each other. Hatred will be so great between them that they will
care more for their different gadgets than for their relatives. Man
will trust his gadget more than his first neighbour...
20. "Among people of a nation far in the north, a little man will appear
who will teach men about love and compassion, but there will be
many hypocrites around him so that he will have many ups and
downs. Not one of these hypocrites will want to know what is real
human grace, but his wise books will remain and all the words he
will say, and then people will see how self-deceived they were.
21. "Those who will read and write different books with numbers will
think that they know the most. These learned men will let their lives
be led by their calculations, and they will do and live exactly how
these numbers tell them. Among these learned men there will be
good and evil men. The evil ones will do evil deeds. They will
poison air and water and spread pestilence over the seas, rivers
and earth, and people will start to die suddenly of various ailments.
Those good and wise will see that all this effort and hard work is
not worth a penny and that it leads to the destruction of the world,
and instead of looking for wisdom in numbers they will start to
seek it in meditation."
2. "The greatest and the angriest will strike against the mightiest and
the most furious! When this horrible war starts, woe to those
armies that fly over skies; better off will be those who fight on
ground and water.
3. "People waging this war will have their scientists who will invent
different and strange cannonballs. When they explode, these
cannonballs instead of killing will cast a spell over all that lives—
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people, armies and livestock. This spell will make them sleep, and
sleep they will instead of fighting, and after this they will come
back to their senses.
4. "We will not fight in this war, but others will do battle over our
heads. Burning people will fall from the sky over Pozega [a town in
Serbia]. Only one country at the end of the world, surrounded by
great seas, as big as our Europe [Australia?], will live in peace,
without any troubles... Upon it or over it, not a single cannonball
will explode! Those who will run and hide in the mountains with
three crosses will find shelter and will be saved to live after in
abundance, happiness and love, because there will be no more
wars..."
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