self fulfilling prophecy, n.All

The Self-fulfilling prophecy is based on a specious validity wehreby the prophet will cite the actual course of events that his false prophesy set in motion as proof that he was right from the very beginning.

The Self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior which makes the originally false conception come true.

The Self-fulfilling prophecy is pervasive in the world. Myths which are believed in tend to become true.