Tycho Dodonus

Tycho Dodonus
Biographical information
Born	At least "many years" before 1927
Physical information
Species	Human
Affiliation
Occupation	Seer

"A son cruelly banished
Despair of the daughter
Return, great avenger
With wings from the water."

— A prophecy from The Predictions of Tycho Dodonus

Tycho Dodonus was a witch or wizard of unknown nationality and an accomplished Seer who prophesied in verse. At some point, many, if not all of Dodonus's prophecies were compiled in a book called The Predictions of Tycho Dodonus.

Apparently, Tycho Dodonus's prophecies were not universally accepted; Porpentina Goldstein dismissed his work as nothing more than poetry, a notion that Yusuf Kama did not seem to challenge even though he evidently was a firm believer in the prophecies.

Etymology

• "Tycho" is derived from the Greek "Τυχων" meaning "hitting the mark". It is also derived from "Tyche", the Greek goddess of luck.
• "Dodonus" is derived from "Dodona", a location in Greece that was the seat of one of Zeus' oracles.

Behind the scenes

• Tycho Dodonus may be reference to Nostradamus, a 16th-century French physician and reputed seer who published Les Propheties, a collection of quatrains that, allegedly, accurately predicted many major world events.
• The name Tycho may be taken from the Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, who in his lifetime also had been a astrologer. Brahe had once made out a horoscope for King Frederick II of Denmark's son, the future King Christian IV.

Appearances

• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (First mentioned)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay