Sybil

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

*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

Entertainment

* Sybil (musical act), 1980's glam band from San Francisco.
*"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.
* Sybil (rock band) from Austin, Texas.

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.Sybil Carpenter- Pefect Day For Bananafish, author J.D. Salinger
*"Sybil-Ilia",current fashion journalist in sybilia.com

In Music

*"The Song of the Sibyl", a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca and the Sardinian city of Alghero.
* 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.

ee also

* Sibylla
* Sibyl