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"

People

• Shirley Ardell Mason: the true name of Sybil Isabel Dorsett, the woman with multiple personality disorder whose story was told in:
  • Sybil (book) a book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  • Sybil (film) a 1976 film starring Sally Field
• Sybil Lynch is a female singer who achieved music success in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Sybil Archibald is an important Reconstructivist artist.

Works

• Sybil (novel) or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli.
• Sybil is a 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss.
• Sybil is the English-language version of the operetta Szibill by Victor Jacobi.
• Cybill was a sitcom in the 1990s.
• The "Chant of the Sybil" is a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca and the Sardinian city of Alghero.

Concepts

• A Sybil attack is the forging of multiple identities for malicious intent
• Sybil also refers to a type of card flourishing in which a deck of cards is split into "packets" and manipulated.

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