The soothsaying Glaucus was a prophet, and gave oracles at Delos.
Massebhah), and of all forms of sorcery, soothsaying and necromancy (Deut.
The wide prevalence of magic and soothsaying may be illustrated from the historical books of the Old Testament as well as from the pre-exilian prophets.
There are mysterious phenomena of natural magic and soothsaying which seemed to establish their divine character.
He combined with the doctrine of Valentinus the Pythagorean and cabbalistic mysticism of numbers and letters, and joined thereto magical and soothsaying arts.
For he so worded the oracle,[149] that whether Pyrrhus was conquered by the Romans, or the Romans by Pyrrhus, the soothsaying god would securely await the issue.
His house was really a place of illicit meeting, and the soothsaying was often but an excuse for going there.
It is equally true that the large proportion of persons who visited Grouche made his soothsaying an excuse.
I say by stealth; because his ostensible occupation of soothsaying and fortune-telling was not his only business.
He was a miracle-worker, given to soothsaying and prophesying, led the life of an ascetic, his raiment and food being of the poorest.
The popular superstitions, in particular those of soothsaying and divination, he sharply attacked.
Julian prepares an expedition against the Persians, and, in order to know beforehand the result of the war, he consults the oracles; and sacrifices innumerable victims, devoting himself wholly to soothsaying and augury.
This cheerful acquiescence in the dream-experience has likewise been embodied by the Greeks in their Apollo: for Apollo, as the god of all shaping energies, is also the soothsaying god.
In Rome, in accordance with the genius of the nation, soothsaying was at a comparatively early period organized and taken in charge by the State.
Among the old Hebrews the soothsaying function is connected not only with priests but also with prophets.
Behind all the terrible aberrations of heathen soothsaying and divination the author saw hunger for a revelation of the will and purpose of God.
That was connected with soothsaying and was the crowning horror of Israel's idolatry.
Even when soothsaying and magic were connected with higher religions than the fetichism of the Haytian negro, they were still detrimental in no ordinary degree.
For so Phoebus Apollo in hissoothsaying had told him that it must be, in goodly Pytho, what time he crossed the threshold of stone, to seek to the oracle.
Well, I do not mind taking soothsaying from you, if you had soothsaying for me, and you would be willing to do it.
Well, the soothsaying I wanted was that you would tell me my lot or what will happen to me, if you can give me knowledge of it.
Those in search ofsoothsaying wait at the opening of the glen and I go to the wheel.
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