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". This article is about prophetic oracles in various cultures. ... The word sibyl comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. ... The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word sibylla, meaning prophetess. ...

People

• Sybil (Lynch), an R&B singer who achieved music success in the 1980s and 1990s
• Shirley Ardell Mason, the true name of Sybil Isabel Dorsett, a woman with dissociative identity disorder whose story was told in:
  • Sybil (book), a book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber
  • Sybil (1976 film), a 1976 film starring Sally Field
  • Sybil (2007 film), a 2007 remake starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange

Sybil Lynch (usually known as Sybil) is a female singer from New Jersey, America. ... Shirley Ardell Mason (January 25, 1923–February 26, 1998) was an American psychiatric patient and commercial artist whose life was documented in the book and film both released under the name Sybil. ... Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), as defined by the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), is a mental condition whereby a single individual evidences two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. ... Sybil is a book written by Flora Rheta Schreiber in 1973 about a woman named Shirley Ardell Mason, who is referred to in the book by the pseudonym Sybil Dorsett. ... A picture of 30th anniversary DVD version of Sybil Sybil originally aired as a made-for-television miniseries in 1976. ... Sybil is a remake of the 1976 made-for-TV miniseries about the life of a woman, Sybil Dorsett, suffering from dissociative identity disorder and the process by which her psychiatrist unravels her abusive childhood. ...

Entertainment

• Sybil (musical act), 1980's glam band from San Francisco.
• "Chant of the Sybil", a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca and the Sardinian city of Alghero.
• 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.

The Chant of the Sybil (Cant de la Sibil. ... Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. ... Majorca (Spanish and Catalan: ) is the largest island of Spain. ... Alghero (lAlguer in Catalan and SAlighèra in Sardinian), is a town of about 42,000 inhabitants (down from 54,300 inhabitants since early 20th century) in Italy. ... Louis Auchincloss (born September 27, 1917) is a prolific U.S. novelist, historian and essayist. ... Sybil, or The Two Nations Published in the same year as Frederick Engelss The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil (1845) traces the plight of the working classes of England. ... Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS (December 21, 1804 – April 19, 1881), born Benjamin DIsraeli was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. ... Szibill is an operetta by Hungarian composer Viktor Jakobi, about The first performance was February 27, 1914, at the Király Színház theatre in Budapest. ... Hungarian operetta composer Victor Jacobi, Jakobi Viktor was born October 22, 1883 and died December 10, 1921 in New York. ... The toxic midget herself: Sybil Fawlty Sybil Fawlty is a fictional character from the hit BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers. ... Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. ... An Inspector Calls is a play written in 1944-1945 by the British dramatist J. B. Priestley. ... John Boynton Priestley, OM (born 13 September 1894, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, died 14 August 1984, Warwickshire) was an English writer and broadcaster . ... This article is about the Harry Potter series of novels. ... Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a setting in J. K. Rowlings best-selling Harry Potter series. ...

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, a cat employed at Downing Street, belonging to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling and his wife.

A reputation system is a type of collaborative filtering algorithm which attempts to determine ratings for a collection of entities, given a collection of opinions that those entities hold about each other. ... Categories: Magic stubs ... Sybil is a cat living at 11 and 10 Downing Street. ... Alistair Maclean Darling (born November 28, 1953) is a British politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer since June 28, 2007. ...

In Music

• State Radio released the songs Sybil I on their album Us Against The Crown, and Sybil II on their 2007 release, Year of the Crow.

State Radio is a rock band formed by former Dispatch member Chad Urmston in 2002 after Dispatch announced their indefinite hiatus (after about two years on hiatus, the band announced a break-up and a final show). ... Year of the Crow is the third full-length LP from reggae-rock band, State Radio, headlined by former Dispatch vocalist, Chad Urmston. ...

See also

• Sibylla
• Sibyl

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