Witchcraft vs Soothsayer - What's the difference?
witchcraft | soothsayer |
The practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
* 1387 , John Trevisa (transl.), Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis ,
(obsolete) One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
A mantis or rearhorse.
As nouns the difference between witchcraft and soothsayer
is that witchcraft is the practice of witches; magic, sorcery or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events while soothsayer is one who tells the truth; a truthful person.witchcraft
English
(wikipedia witchcraft)Noun
(en-noun)chapter XLIV:
- And in þat ilond is sortilege and wicchecraft i-vsed. For wommen þere selliþ schipmen wynde, as it were i-closed vnder þre knottes of þrede, so þat þe more wynd he wol haue, he wil vnknette þe mo knottes.
- Wiccans believe in a modernised form of witchcraft .
