Pythoness and Python

noun

• A witch with powers of divination.
• Greek mythology. ( the priestess of Apollo at Delphi who transmitted the oracles).
  • synonyms: Pythia

• (n.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
• (n.) Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.

noun

• Large Old World boas.
• A soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit.
• Greek mythology. ( dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi).

• (n.) A diviner by spirits.
• (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.