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Перевод: soothsayer

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предсказатель ; гадалка

Тезаурус:

1. Momentarily Jaq imagined that the majordomo had led them, in error of mischief, to a soothsayer.
2. Now one of the comments of Pausanias is that before a battle the Celts neither employed a Greek soothsayer nor made sacrifices according to national custom - if indeed, as Pausanias pointedly remarks (10.21.1), there is such a thing as Celtic divination.
3. Much has been written about the ritual practices, accoutrements, and spiritual calling of the shaman , who functioned as priest, soothsayer and healer.
4. For some time the soothsayer continued to warm himself, staring into the flames.
5. Portents in plenty are also reported - a tempest dripping fire (St Elmo's fire?), a lion walking sulkily through the city, the bird of night hooting and shrieking at noon-day and of course the soothsayer's warning to Beware the Ides of March.
6. The soothsayer sat down, nodding in general greeting, and held out his hands to the warmth.
7. The smooth-talking soothsayer is played by Ron Moody: "Doing the voice-over made me realise just how intelligent and satirical the writing is.
8. "There's no danger," he translated, his eyes on the soothsayer's hands, "but the boar that we want is as fast as the wind and as sharp as an eagle."
9. Once this occurs, the bwca will not regain his earlier good humour, so the householder will have to enlist the help of a soothsayer to banish the sprite.
10. He had been a crusader in the north, he had made devout pilgrimage to Jerusalem, a soothsayer had promised him he should die there when his hour came upon him.
11. Frazer describes the process of consulting the oracle at the sanctuary dedicated to the soothsayer Ampiaraus, at Oropus, Attica.
12. Eventually the headman passed on the hookah stem and stood up, saying he'd go and fetch the soothsayer.
13. In modern life astrology seems in any case to have taken over from dream interpretation as the soothsayer's preferred technique.