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Prophecy vs Sortilege - What's the difference?

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Prophecy is a related term of sortilege.


As nouns the difference between prophecy and sortilege

is that prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration while sortilege is magic spell, sorcery, witchcraft.

As a verb prophecy

is .

prophecy

English

(wikipedia prophecy)

Noun

(prophecies)
  • A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
    • French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .

    Derived terms

    * self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecy

    Related terms

    * prophesy * prophet * prophetic

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
    • The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
  • * Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge, page 142:
    • One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
  • * 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge, page 135:
    • The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
  • * 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge, page 85:
    • the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);

    sortilege

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Witchcraft, magic, especially as a means of making decisions or predictions.
  • * 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
  • *:We have therefore summoned to our presence a Jewish woman, by name Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York — a woman infamous for sortileges and for witcheries.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 115:
  • *:Orthodox believers were less happy about using sortilege to coerce God into taking decisions on their behalf.
  • * 2001 , (JT Leroy), Sarah :
  • *:‘Too much evil sortilege ,’ Glad always says when someone suggests he open a franchise over Cheat Ridge.

    • Derived terms

    * sortilegious