Soothsayer

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.