An elevated term for a witch was pythoness, which came to us in medieval times from medical Latin via French. |
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The physical movements of the performers evoke those of a pythoness at traditional rituals of ancient Okinawa. |
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On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs. |
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Laius set off to ask the oracular Pythoness at Delphi how to deal with this monster. |
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But at Delphi the sun-god's spiritual bride was known in the days of Herodotus as the Pythoness, and later as Pythia. |
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