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In antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "sibyls". In modern times, when "Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil".
[edit] People
- Sybil Dorsett, a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason, a woman with dissociative identity disorder whose story was told in:
[edit] Entertainment
- Sybil Lynch, American singer
- Sybil (Auchincloss), 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss
- Sybil (novel) or The Two Nations, 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli
- Sybil, English-language version of the operetta Szibill by Victor Jacobi
- Sybil Fawlty, a character played by Prunella Scales in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers
- Sybil Birling, a character in the play, An Inspector Calls by[J. B. Priestley
- Sybill Trelawney, a character in the Harry Potter series, professor of Divination at Hogwarts.
- Lady Sybil Vimes, a character in the Discworld series.
- Sybil Stone, a character played by Diane Keaton in the American film The Family Stone
- Sybil Pandemik, a character in Telltale Games' Sam & Max episodes.
[edit] Others
- Sybil attack, the use of stolen or forged multiple identities for defeating a reputation system
- "Sybil", a type of card flourishing in which a deck of cards is split into "packets" and manipulated
- Sybil (cat), a cat employed at Downing Street in the United Kingdom
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