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A soothsayer is a person who claims to speak sooth: specifically one who predicts the future based upon personal, political, spiritual, mental or religious beliefs rather than scientific facts.
Typically, soothsayers include:
- Astrologers
- Augurs
- Clairvoyant
- Practitioners of divination
- Fortune tellers
- Haruspices
- Oracles
- Seer
- Shamans
Soothsayer may also refer to:
- Presage, an intelligent predictive text entry system formerly called Soothsayer
- "Soothsayer," a song by Buckethead
- "Soothsayer," a song by The Mars Volta on their album The Bedlam in Goliath
- "Soothsayer," a 1965 Post-Bop Jazz album by composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter
A prophet, although sometimes regarded as a "soothsayer" is someone who speaks "oracles" of GOD as explained in the Bible.
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