prophetess

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The 5-inch drawing depicts the right foot of the Libyan Sibyl, a blonde prophetess wearing a creamsicle gown painted onto the chapel ceiling’s eastern end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Olive sees her as a prophetess of the new order, given proper coaching.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2018

“She has overturned heaven and earth for us,” a young prophetess announces.

From Washington Post • Oct. 10, 2017

Greek myths narrate the failure of prediction: For the Trojan prophetess Cassandra, those in power found ways to ignore even her perfect prophecy.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2016

The Pythoness, Apollo’s priestess and prophetess, had found him one morning, a little baby, lying on the temple stairway, and had brought him up as tenderly as a mother.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton