In 1437, King James I of Scotland was approached by an Irish seer who was later identified as a banshee who foretold his murder at the instigation of the Earl of Atholl.

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.

Chloris, daughter of Orchomenus, married the seer Ampyx ( son of Elatus ), with whom she had a child Mopsus who also became a renowned seer and would later join the Argonauts.

The Whitmer family, devoted to their importance, " later said their disenchantment with Mormonism began when Joseph Smith stopped using his seer stone as an instrument of revelation.

After finishing the Book of Mormon translation, Smith gave his brown seer stone to Oliver Cowdery, but he occasionally used his white stone to gain revelations, including his translation of what later became known as the " Book of Abraham.

The seer thought that the baby would be the Source's demonic spawn with nothing of Cole or Phoebe but the baby showed every characteristic of Cole and Phoebe which meant he was mostly good since Cole even after he became the Source tried to help the Charmed Ones even after he had basically totally subdued by the Source, and since his mother was a Charmed One he had all the goodness of the Halliwells and the Warrens, he exhibited all of these signs because whenever his family was in trouble he would use his powers to vanquish the demons who came after him including immortal demons which suggested that he would inherit more of Cole's current, previous, and later powers along with the Charmed Ones ' goddesses ', superheroes ', warlocks ', evil sorceresses and other various assorted powers.

As the seer would later explain, a nightly visitor would have woken him only a day before the outbreak of war, with a message that his work was dedicated to God.

Because of the description of him as a wild man and seer living in the forests of Southern Scotland he is sometimes identified with Myrddin Wyllt, the prototype for the wizard Merlin of Arthurian legend.

Under the doctrine of continuing revelation, Latter-day Saints believe that Jesus Christ, under the direction of Heavenly Father, leads the church by revealing His will to its president, whom adherents regard as a modern-day " prophet, seer, and revelator ".

In Christianity a prophet ( or seer ) is one inspired by God through the Holy Spirit to deliver a message for a specific purpose.

An alternate view takes qe-ra-si-ja and qe-ra-si-jo as proof of androgyny, and applies this name by similar arguments to the legendary seer, Tiresias, but these views are not mutually exclusive of one another.

In that encounter Zwide's mother Ntombazi, a Sangoma ( Zulu seer or shaman ), was killed by Shaka.

This dream was interpreted by the seer Aesacus as a foretelling of the downfall of Troy, and he declared that the child would be the ruin of his homeland.

After the meeting Olaf was attacked by a group of mutineers, and what the seer had foretold happened.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, King Pentheus is warned by the blind seer Tiresias to welcome Bacchus or else " Your blood be poured out over your mother and sisters ..." Pentheus dismisses Tiresias and ignores his warnings.

" Modern scholars generally consider only one of the attributed epigrams to be unquestionably authentic ( an inscription for the seer Megistius quoted by Herodotus ), which places in doubt even some of the most famous examples, such as the one to the Spartans at Thermopylae, quoted in the introduction.

Often when his name is attached to a mythic prophecy, it is introduced simply to supply a personality to the generic example of a seer, not by any inherent connection of Tiresias with the myth: thus it is Tiresias who tells Amphytrion of Zeus and Alcmena and warns the mother of Narcissus that the boy will thrive as long as he never knows himself.

Since Tiresias is both the greatest seer of the Classical mythos, a figure cursed by the gods, and both man and woman, he has been very useful to authors.

From its Romanticist usage, the notion of the bard as a minstrel with qualities of a priest, magician or seer also entered the fantasy genre in the 1960s to 1980s, for example as the " Bard " class in Dungeons & Dragons, Bard by Keith Taylor ( 1981 ), Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn ( 1984 ), and in video games in fantasy settings such as The Bard's Tale ( 1985 ).

In the Odyssey, the story is told by the seer Theoklymenos about his ancestor Melampous.

The accuracy or outcome of any prophecy is altered by the desires and attachments of the seer and those who hear the prophecy.

The Proclamation was especially authoritative because it was issued in the name of the three members of the First Presidency and the twelve members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, each of the fifteen signatories being considered by the LDS Church an apostle as well as a " prophet, seer, and revelator.

* PEENAQUIM ( Pe-na-koam, Penukwiim-“ Seen From Afar ”, “ far seer ”, “ far off in sight ”, “ far off dawn ”, also known as Onis tay say nah que im-“ Calf Rising in Sight ”, and Bull Collar, about * 1810-d. 1869 by smallpox near Lethbridge ), son of Two Suns, Chief of the Fish Eaters band ( Mamyowis ), leading Chief of the Kainai, his tribal following is estimated at the time of his death as being 2, 500 people

As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Oaks is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator.

It was at this meeting he was told by a Chaldean seer that he would die at the height of his fame and fortune.

The ' secrets of Fatima ' revealed periodically by the seer Lucia showed Mary's concern with the apostacy of Soviet Russia and the threat of communist anticlericalism.

Latter-day Saints believe that, in addition to Joseph Smith being the first prophet appointed by Jesus in the " latter days ", every subsequent President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also serves in the capacity of prophet, seer and revelator.

While these references from Redwall, the first book, were made before the series had truly realized itself, The Taggerung makes references to an underworld again when a devilish character called " Vulpuz " is mentioned by one seer as the ruler of Hellgates and the ancestor of foxes.

" Like all words that try to reduce the conceptually ungraspable experience of enlightenment to a concept, this one is also not entirely accurate and is even misleading, since the experience contains no duality of " seer " and " seen " because there is no " nature of self ' as an object that is seen by a subject separate from it.

As president, Monson is considered by adherents of the religion to be a " prophet, seer, and revelator " of God's will on earth.

Smith said he translated the text through the gift and power of God and through the aid of the Urim and Thummim or a seer stone.

The oldest is considered to be that which marks Samuel as the local seer of Ramah, who willingly anoints Saul as King in secret, while the latter is that which presents Samuel as a national figure, who begrudgingly anoints Saul as King in front of a national assembly.

In 1 Samuel 9: 6-20, Samuel is seen as a local “ seer .” The Deuteronomistic Historians preserved this view of Samuel while contributing him as “ the first of prophets to articulate the failure of Israel to live up to its covenant with God .” For the Deuteronomistic Historians, Samuel was extension of Moses and continuing Moses ’ function as a prophet, judge, and a priest which made historical Samuel uncertain.

Samuel is also a revered prophet and seer in the Islamic faith.

Michel de Nostredame ( 14 or 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566 ), usually Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide.

Mopsus, son of Ampyx and a nymph ( sometimes named as Chloris ), born at Titaressa in Thessaly, was also a seer and augur.

* Arisbe ( daughter of Merops ), an early wife of King Priam of Troy, also daughter of the seer Merops of Percote

Kira ( Charisma Carpenter ), a powerful demonic seer, tells Phoebe her powers were once limited to psychometry but they grew, like Phoebe's will in time.

The word " file " is thought to derive from the Proto-Celtic * widluios, meaning " seer, one who sees " ( attested on the Gaulish inscription from Larzac as " uidluias ", which is the feminine genitive singular form ), derived ultimately from the verb * widlu -, " to see ".

* Gad ( Bible prophet ), King David's seer or prophet

In Irish mythology Fintan mac Bóchra ( modern spelling: Fionntán ), known as " the Wise ", was a seer who accompanied Noah's granddaughter Cessair to Ireland before the deluge.

2nd half of 4th century BCE ), a Greek from Caria, was Alexander the Great's favorite seer.

After the Trojan War, the Trojan seer Calchas, like the Theban seeress Manto ( above ), was among the refugees at Clarus, where he challenged Mopsus, the charismatic son of Manto and Rhacius, and superseded him as seer of the oracular site, and there he eventually died ( Argonautica1. 308 ; Ovid Metamorphoses 1. 516 and 11. 413 ; Strabo 14. 4. 3 ).

The most famous of his works are Is-slottet ( The Ice Palace ), a story of two girls who build a profoundly strong relationship that ultimately ends tragically ; and The Birds, a story of an adult of a simple childish mind, which through his tenderhearted empathy and imagination bears the role of a seer or writer.

Kulothunga ’ s inscription at the Sriranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam says that “ King Neriyan ( Kulothunga I ), had been happy to appropriate from the vanquished Pandyas, the magnificent pearl fisheries at Tiruananthapuram ( Trivandrum ) and also militarily occupy the Potiyil hills where the great seer Agastya was blessed with the knowledge of language of Tamil by lord Sivan .”.

After binding Proteus ( who changes into many forms to no avail ), Aristaeus is told by the seer that he angered the nymphs by causing the death of the nymph Eurydice, wife of Orpheus.