sibyl

Etymology

Latin Sibylla, from Ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Síbulla).

noun

1. A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
   I used to read these tales in Homer when I was a lad. Then the Sibyl! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, ‘Sibyl, what would you?' she'd answer, ‘I would die,'-- both of ‘em speaking Greek." 1922 T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland: Epigraph (translated from 61 Petronius' The Satyricon: Chapter 8, Lines 80 -86)