Prophetic traditions refers to any written or oral prophecies within a culture, usually of religious nature.
A major source of such early prophetic traditions comes from the Jewish religion where it is called Masorah, and is identified in Oral Torah, notably in the Pirkei Avot that spans the tradition from Moses to the time of the Second Temple.
In the Christian prophetic tradition the texts are reflected in the New Testament.
The Islamic prophetic tradition is exemplified by the Hadith
Non-religious prophetic traditions are represented by Nostradamus in France and Joseph Smith, Jr. to name a few.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes regretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.”
—Guillaume-Prosper, Baron De Barante (1782–1866)