Herophile - Definition and Overview

1. In antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "Sibyls."
2. In modern times, when "Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil."
3. Sybil is also the name of a 1973 book and 1976 movie about multiple personality disorder.
4. "Sybil" also refers to a type of card flourishing in which a deck of cards is split into "packets" and manipulated.