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A Soothsayer wisely warns Caesar to beware the Ides of March, in Julius Caesar. A Soothsayer attends on Lucius, and eventually interprets the book given to Posthumus by Jupiter, in Cymbeline . A Soothsayer makes a number of predictions, all of which come true in their own way, in Antony and Cleopatra .
As a soothsayer he practiced extispicy, the observance of animal entrails to foresee future events. He is also referred to as Arexion the Arcadian (Ἀρηξίων Ἀρκάς) which indicates he was a native of Arcadia , a region in the center of the Peloponnese.
Soothsayer (horse) (1808–1827), a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire; Soothsayer (moth) or Graphiphora augur, a moth in the family Noctuidae; Soothsayer, a 1991 science-fiction novel by Mike Resnick
Ursula Southeil (c. 1487 – 1561); also variously spelt as Southill, Soothtell, [4] Sontheil, [5] [6] or Sonthiel, [7] popularly known as Mother Shipton, was an English soothsayer and prophetess according to English folklore. She has sometimes been described as a witch and is associated with folklore involving the origin of the Rollright ...
Senna the Soothsayer: Guest actors. The major guest actors of the first series are: Actor Role Episode # Leon Thau: Noxious, owner of a bawdy house 1
'All his visitants,' says a writer in The Tatler No. 14, 'come to him full of expectations, and pay his own rate for the interpretations they put upon his shrugs and nods;' and he is referred to in The Spectator No. 560: 'Every one has heard of the famous conjuror who, according to the opinion of the vulgar, has studied himself dumb.
For example, in one case a Swedish man feared he had offended a god and asked a soothsayer to cast lots to find out which god. The soothsayer determined that the Christian god had taken offence; the Swede later found a book that his son had stolen from Bishop Gautbert in his house.
Mum and the Sothsegger is an anonymous fifteenth century alliterative English poem, written during the "Alliterative Revival."It is ostensibly an example of medieval debate poetry between the principles of the oppressive figure of Mum ("Silence", as in "to keep mum") and the unruly, wild Sothsegger ("Truth-Speaker", cognate with the modern word "soothsayer").