Premonition

Read Genesis 40-42

Genesis 41:8 "And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh."

Your character doesn’t have to be a psychic to have premonitions. Call it intuition or a sixth sense, most of us have experienced an eerie peek into the future.

Your character might be someone who is known for his uncanny hunches and predictions of what will happen to the people around him. Another character might be superstitious and the scoffers around her find she’s right way too often for comfort. Maybe it’s someone who is close to nature, like someone who grew up on a farm and learned to predict hurricanes based on animals’ and plants’ behavior without even realizing that’s the source of the information.

 

Having a character who has premonitions is an engaging way to foreshadow plot events and keep the other characters uneasy and the reader’s eyes glued to your story.