A NATIVE American tribe which has predicted global disasters with eerie accuracy says the world will end in "the near future" as a comet will smash into Earth. An ancient clan known as the Hopi tribe – which is still 18,327 strong as of 2010 – has described how the apocalypse will arrive. After a string of their predictions proved true, many are now fearing the worse. The tribe claim that we now live in the Fourth World after the previous three were destroyed by fire and ice. A previous nine predictions were passed onto US minister David Young in 1958 after he encountered a Hopi elder named White Feather. White Feather told Mr Young that his ancestors had previously foretold the arrival of the "white skinned men", referring to Europe's discovery of the Americas, and that "our lands will see the coming of spinning wheels filled with voices" – the subsequent conquering of the continent. He added: "A strange beast like a buffalo but with great long horns will overrun the land in large