Pythoness and Witch

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

• A female sorcerer or magician.
  • synonyms: enchantress
• A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil.
• A believer in Wicca.
  • synonyms: Wiccan
• An ugly evil-looking old woman.
  • synonyms: hag, beldam, beldame, crone

verb

• Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something.
  • synonyms: hex, bewitch, glamour, enchant, jinx

• (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
• (v.t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
• (n.) The stormy petrel.
• (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
• (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
• (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
• (n.) One who practices the black art or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, especially with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.