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A Soothsayer was someone who could forsee the future.
In an alternate timeline where all of history occurred at once, the Eleventh Doctor served as soothsayer to the Holy Roman Emperor, Winston Churchill. (DW: The Wedding of River Song)
According to one account, the Doctor was the soothsayer who told Julius Caesar to "Beware the Ides of March." (DWN: Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood)
A Verron soothsayer once gave Sarah Jane Smith a puzzle box (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?) and a warp star (DW: Journey's End) after Sarah Jane and her friends helped him return to his home planet. The soothsayer told her to give the puzzle box to the person she trusted most, namely Maria Jackson. (SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
In Pompei there were many soothsayers who had forseen the arrival of the Doctor, though they had not forseen the disaster that would happen shortly after the Doctor's arrival (DW: The Fires of Pompei)
