| An elevated term for a witch was pythoness, which came to us in medieval times from medical Latin via French. |
| It was a pythoness from Syria that advised Marius on the sacrifices he was to perform. |
| But she was a pythoness, and did not at all come up to our idea of a witch. |
| But the pythoness was not wholly tamed, and she could not even yet forget her wrongs. |
| The Pithoness or pythoness, which usually appears in the M.E. writers as in the text. |
| The physical movements of the performers evoke those of a pythoness at traditional rituals of ancient Okinawa. |
