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'Premonition' refers to a situation when future events are foreknown or forecast. They are attributed by some people to the presence of supernatural or paranormal abilities.(see Cassandra myth). However, the distinction between precognition and ordinary evidence-based predictions is sometimes not made sharply. "Premonition" may be defined to include or exclude ordinary predictions, and this means a fallacy of linguistic ambiguity can lead to an overly supernatural explanation for predictions' accuracy.

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Famous premonitions

In popular culture

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Famous premonitions

★ Abraham Lincoln's prophetic dream of his death and funeral, which he related to both his bodyguard and his wife mere hours before his assassination.[1]

★ Otto von Bismarck predicted the beginning of the First World War, by saying (shortly before he died in 1898) to Mr. Ballen: "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans." [2] Note that this is a good example of a premonition that could easily be due to a good intuitive understanding of politics, rather than being precognitive.

★ The novelist Mark Twain predicted that Halley's Comet would be seen on the day of his death, just as it did when he was born. Twain died weeks before Halley's 1910 apperance on May 18th.[3][4]

★ French apothecary Nostradamus is also believed to have predicted his own death.[5][6]

In popular culture

★ In the ''Final Destination'' series, the protagonist of each film has a deadly premonition of an unfortunate accident. Throughout the films, these premonitions continue in a more subtle manner, similar to fate hinting at them.

★ In the WB television series ''Charmed'', one of the main characters, Phoebe Halliwell, has the power of premonition.

★ In the television series ''Supernatural'', Sam Winchester has the power to see the future.

★ In '', Burdock, the parent of the main character Son Goku, is given the power of premonition which allowed him to see his son grow up, the destruction of his homeworld as well as his own death by a tyrant.

★ In That's So Raven the protagonist (Raven Baxter) has premonition in every episode.

★ In Alias (TV Series) the fictional 14th centuary prophet Milo Rambaldi is credited with predicting the start of events ranging from the start of World War II to the exact day that certian people will die.

★ In ABC Studios's Lost (TV Series) the character Desmond Hume is able to see the death of Charlie Pace before it happens as well as other events after a near death experience.

See also

★ Precognition

★ Premonitions (novel)

★ Premonition (film)

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