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Treated as canards — her prophecies were! (9)

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cassandra

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(Other definitions for cassandra that I've seen before include "whose predictions nobody believed?" , "one having gloomy views" , "forecaster" , "Prophetess during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but never believed" , "Prophesying daughter of Priam of Troy" .)

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