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Pythoness

noun

A witch with powers of divination.

(Greek mythology) the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles. Synonym: Pythia.

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... wise." A glint of laughter shone in her eyes. "I would claim to be another Pythoness if only it did not sound so snaky and wriggling. So, from my trident—or was it a Triton they used to stand on?—I announce that you and your Augustus are worrying yourselves gray-headed over an idiotically simple problem. Now, I disposed ...

— The Certain Hour • James Branch Cabell

... was under subjection to both art and nature when she seemed to abandon herself the most absolutely to the whirlwind of her passion. There were no undue excesses of posture, movement, or tone. Her attitudes, it was once said, were those of "a Pythoness cast in bronze." Her voice thrilled and awed at its first note: it was so strangely deep, so solemnly melodious, until, stirred by passion as it were, it became thick and husky in certain of its tones; but it was always ...

— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various

Words linked to "Pythoness" : Pythia, Greek deity, Greek mythology, witch