[ noun ] someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) <noun.person>
Soothsayer \Sooth"say`er\, n. 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A mantis.
But what happened in the sentimental 19th century? Patrick Curry has filled A Confusion of Prophets with bewildering information; but he does so indiscriminately, so it takes a soothsayer to divine the salient facts. Curry offers five short biographies.
The mountain symbolizes a dragon, the soothsayer says, and the building is located along a powerful "dragon vein" running down the peak.