Sybil
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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"
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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.
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Works
- Sybil (novel) or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli
- Sybil (Auchincloss) is a 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss
- Sybil is the English-language version of the operetta Szibill by Victor Jacobi
- Cybill (with C) was a sitcom in the 1990s
- Chant of the Sybil (Cat:Cant de la Sibil.la) is a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorcaand the Sardinian city of Alghero.
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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.