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* The Quorial, the body of mostly middle-aged and older leaders among [[Literature/{{Deryni}} the Servants of Saint Camber]], curiously includes Rhidian, a woman "who looked to be barely into puberty," yet provides a psychic shield for thw whole Quorial, preventing Kelson from reading their minds. It is she who speaks for the Quorial to inform Kelson of their decision to offer him a chance to avoid the death penalty for sacrilege by undergoing the ''cruaidh-dheuchainn'', a ritual ordeal which she tells Kelson she has herself undergone. She is said to speak enigmatically and has "a disturbingly direct gaze".
* In Creator/TamoraPierce's [[Literature/TortallUniverse Tortall]] book ''Lady Knight'', Kel runs across an oracular street urchin who -along with her own seeing powers- has a omniscient god-like thing using her as a puppet on occasion.

** Kettle is an [[UndeadChild undead girl]] who lives in the Azath cemetery in Letheras and [[CreepyChild nonchalantly kills people]] she thinks are bad between providing everyone who would listen with matter-of-fact revelations of things "the dead told her", which generally relate to current events she should have no means to know about. Part of her uncanny insights come from her being connected to the Azath Tower and serving it by feeding it the corpses of those she kills. [[HeroicAlbino Silchas Ruin]] claims that Kettle has two souls inside of her, one of which is [[AbusivePrecursors Forkrul Assail]], though he never specifies if the other is native to her once-mortal body or another one stuffed in there after she died. Kettle vaguely remembers being both a mortal child and a Nameless One child of [[EarthMother the Eres]] who was wrapped up in prophecies. When the Azath Tower dies, Kettle starts coming back to life, but she never stops with her mysterious revelations. At the end of ''Literature/ReapersGale'', [[spoiler:Silchas Ruin kills her, and a new Azath House sprouts from her body]].

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* A filler episode of the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' anime is centered on Akane's friend Miyo, a very cute FortuneTeller who tells her how [[SickEpisode cure a mysterious illness that befalls the Tendo household]].

* Little Kohane Tsuyuri from ''Manga/XxxHoLic'' has the ability to see spirits much like Watanuki's, which leads them to develop an IntergenerationalFriendship

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* In ''Literature/HistoriaRegumBritanniae'' and subsequent [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian]] works, Myth/{{Merlin}} first appears as a boy, prophesying the ascension of first Uther Pendragon and then his son Arthur. Coincidentally, he's [[HalfHumanHybrid only half human]].

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* Luna Lovegood (HarryPotter) is often retouched to fit this trope in fanfiction.

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* Literary/Musical Theater example - Edgar from ''Literature/{{Ragtime}}'' has intermittent prophetic moments, but they are never even remotely clear until after the foreseen event. It's a little creepy.

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* Coco in ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}''.

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* Steven Erikson's ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' has at least two of these:
** Kettle, the undead girl who lives in the Azath cemetery in Letheras and later hooks up with Silchas Ruin's party. At the end of ''Reaper's Gale'' (book 7), [[spoiler:Silchas Ruin kills her, and a new Azath House sprouts from her body]].
** Grub, an boy orphan who tags along with the Malazan army. He has occasional [[WhoopiEpiphanySpeech prophetic speeches]], but [[spoiler:as of ''Reaper's Gale'' (book 7), he has yet to play a really major part in any plot]].

Usually female, small and fey in [[CreepyChild a disturbing way]], the '''Oracular Urchin''' knows more about the future -- or the present -- than she really should. Sometimes her mysterious comments are clear, but usually they just confuse matters until everything's over, and maybe not even then. When things come to a head, the Oracular Urchin may be the one who explains Everything (either explicitly or [[CrypticConversation by implication)]] to the hero -- and, to the audience.

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Usually female, small and fey in [[CreepyChild a disturbing way]], the '''Oracular Urchin''' knows more about the future -- or the present -- than she really should. Sometimes her mysterious comments are clear, but usually they just confuse matters until everything's over, and maybe not even then. When things come to a head, the OracularU rchin may be the one who explains Everything (either explicitly or [[CrypticConversation by implication)]] to the hero -- and to the audience.

Related to the WaifProphet, but the Oracular Urchin is not usually ill in any way -- just ... different and strangely informed.

Usually female, small and fey in [[CreepyChild a disturbing way]], the OracularUrchin knows more about the future -- or the present -- than she really should. Sometimes her mysterious comments are clear, but usually they just confuse matters until everything's over, and maybe not even then. When things come to a head, the OracularUrchin may be the one who explains Everything (either explicitly or [[CrypticConversation by implication)]] to the hero -- and to the audience.

Related to the WaifProphet, but the OracularUrchin is not usually ill in any way -- just ... different and strangely informed.

* Rei Ayanami from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is a borderline OracularUrchin -- she is fey and clearly knows far more of what's going on than most of the other characters, but she provides no revelations to anyone -- including, for a long time, the audience.

* From ''FireEmblemElibe'':

* Devera, the brown-eyed little girl from (this is not hyperbole) every book Steven K. Z. Brust has ever written. Her ''lack'' of appearance in ''[[Literature/{{Dragaera}} Five Hundred Years After]]'' is even lampshaded in the "Author interview" at the end. A full tally of her appearances may be found [[http://mindstalk.net/brust/devfaq.html here]]; 'ware spoilers. This is what happens when a part-goddess little girl with TimeTravel powers is allowed to run around loose.

* Akane's friend Miyo from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' (anime only).

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* In ''Film/TheMatrix'', the androgynous monk child ("Spoon Boy" according to the script) who claims that "There is no spoon."
* The plague ridden child in Mel Gibson's ''Film/{{Apocalypto}}'' who accosts the slavers as they bring their captives in for sacrifice.
** While female, small, fey, and creepy, this child is probably more of a WaifProphet due to her obvious illness.
* ''Film/ScaryMovie3'' has Cody.

* ''Film/MenInBlack3'', has an alien named Griffin, who can see multiple futures on what can or may happen.
* ''Film/{{Push}}'' has [[Creator/DakotaFanning Cassie]], a second-generation Watcher, capable of seeing visions of possible futures and drawing them (badly). Her [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] counterpart is Pop Girl who is older.

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* The Quorial, the body of mostly middle-aged and older leaders among [[Literature/{{Deryni}} the Servants of Saint Camber]], curiously includes Rhidian, a woman "who looked to be barely into puberty," yet provides a psychic shield for thw whole Quorial, preventing Kelson from reading their minds. It is she who speaks for the Quorial to inform Kelson of their decision to offer him a chance to avoid the death penalty for sacrilege by undergoing the ''cruaidh-dheuchainn'', a ritual ordeal which she tells Kelson she has herself undergone. She is said to speak enigmatically and has "a disturbingly direct gaze".

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* Cha Dawn in the ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' ExpansionPack is a 10-year old kid with all the wisdom of a 90-year old elder, capable of communicating with the aliens.

* Coco in ''{{Ever17}}''.

* [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Jade]] and [[ISeeDeadPeople Aradia]] from ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}''.

* Carim Gracia of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', who has the ability to magically create prophecies for the near future once a year. Unfortunately, the prophecies come in the dead Ancient Belka language, record things at random, ''and'' are written in poem form that can be interpreted in many ways, making them [[CrypticConversation rather cryptic once translated into something readable]]. Carim lampshades how helpful this trope tends to be by saying that her ability is about as useful as a fairly accurate horoscope due to the mentioned factors. Still, both TheChurch and TheFederation treat these prophecies seriously since, hey, they're ''still'' glimpses into the future.

* ''[[ScaryMovie Scary Movie 3]]'' has Cody.

* ''Film/MenInBlack'' 3, has an alien named Griffin, who can see multiple futures on what can or may happen.

* The "Waif Child" from the ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' [[TheMovie movie]] "The Tale of the Silver Sight" fits this trope. [[spoiler: Though as the [[EnfantTerrible evil]] creator of the titular ArtifactOfDoom, he has reason to be knowledgable.]]
* In ''TheTenthKingdom'', the little girl in Kissing Town. Later revealed to be the spirit of Literature/SnowWhite.
* Madison in ''HarpersIsland''

* In Creator/DanAbnett's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''Straight Silver'', Gaunt and Beltayr meet with a strange woman in the [[TheLostWoods woods]], who says she is Elinor Zaker, a retired Battle Sister, and gives Gaunt intimations of the future -- vague, because she explicitly tells him that she can not tell him too much. Gaunt sees her scars and concludes that she suffered brain damage. She also lends him a car, which vanishes after they have gotten where they are going. As do its keys. And they can't find her chapel afterwards. And her name proves to be that of a woman who died millenia earlier.

* Radar O'Reilly of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' could strangely anticipate incoming helicopters, phone calls, and orders people were about to give him. Downplayed in the book, where he simply has unusually good hearing.

* Rin from ''PleaseSaveMyEarth''.

* Shouko in ''NightHeadGenesis''.

* Layla Miller in ''XFactor''. "I'm Layla Miller, I know stuff."

* Literary/Musical Theater example - Edgar from ''{{Ragtime}}'' has intermittent prophetic moments, but they are never even remotely clear until after the foreseen event. It's a little creepy.

* Spoofed by Hitomi in ''PuniPuniPoemi'', who actually has accurate (but ultimately, not very useful) precognitive powers.

* Carim Gracia of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'', who has the ability to magically create prophecies for the near future once a year. Unfortunately, the prophecies come in the dead Ancient Belka language, record things at random, ''and'' are written in poem form that can be interpreted in many ways, making them [[CrypticConversation rather cryptic once translated into something readable]]. Carim lampshades how helpful this trope tends to be by saying that her ability is about as useful as a fairly accurate horoscope due to the mentioned factors. Still, both TheChurch and TheFederation treat these prophecies seriously since, hey, they're ''still'' glimpses into the future.

* Anlu the Oracle from ''FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden''. [[spoiler: And she pays for it with her life.]]

* Akane's friend Miyo from ''RanmaOneHalf'' (anime only).
* Quon Kisaragi and Reika Mishima from ''RahXephon''. Quon tends toward quiet crypticness, but seems to be strangely familiar with Ayato. [[spoiler: Because he's her clone/son and her counterpart in [[AssimilationPlot tuning the world.]]]] Mishima is more active, but still very cryptic, and is very insistent on Ayato becoming one with the Rahxephon. More strangely, she doesn't seem to have a reflection and no one remembers her but Ayato. [[spoiler: She's the soul of the Rahxephon personified, Ixtli, and modelled after the girl he loves: the younger Haruka Mishima.]]

* Little Kohane Tsuyuri from ''XxxHoLic'' has the ability to see spirits much like Watanuki's, which leads them to develop an IntergenerationalFriendship

* Haruka in ''UntilDeathDoUsPart''. It's a main plot that everyone wants her because of her powers.
* Anlu the Oracle from FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden. [[spoiler: And she pays for it with her life.]]

* In FireEmblemElibe, Ninian was this in the past. [[spoiler: More exactly, she was this as the Shrine Dragon.]] Her little brother Nils fits in a little more after he takes over Hannah's work.

* [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Jade]] and [[ISeeDeadPeople Aradia]] from ''{{Homestuck}}''.

* Yashiro Hoshimiya fills this role in ''LightNovel/DenpaOnnaToSeishunOtoko''. At first she appears to be an obnoxious girl obsessed with space like the titular character Erio Touwa, and she constantly berates Makoto Niwa for having caused her to stop believing in alien activity. Then at the end of episode 13, after telling Makoto to move slightly, a meteor lands right in the spot where he was standing just moments earlier, causing him to wonder if she really was [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane an alien or not.]]