Sibyl (disambiguation)

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Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece.

Sybil or Sibyl may also refer to:

Films

• Sybil (1921 film)
• Sybil (1976 film), a film starring Sally Field
• Sybil (2007 film), a remake of the 1976 film starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange
• Sibyl (2019 film), a French comedy-drama film

Literature

• The Sibyl (play), a tragedy by Richard Cumberland, published in 1813
• Sybil (novel) or The Two Nations, an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli
• Sybil (Schreiber book), a book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about Shirley Ardell Mason, an alleged sufferer from multiple personality disorder
• Sybil, a 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss
• The Sybil or Sibyllan, a 1956 Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist
• The Sybil, an American dress reform periodical founded by Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck

Music

• Sybil (album), a 1989 album by American singer Sybil
• Sybil (operetta) adaptation of Szibill by Victor Jacobi
• Sibyl Vane (band), indie rock band from Pau, France created in 2002

Science

• Sybil Island, one of the many uninhabited Canadian arctic islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut
• Sybil rock, outcropping of rock on the site of Delphi, Greece
• 4679 Sybil, minor planet (12 km diameter) discovered in 1990 by R. H. McNaught
• Typhoon Sibyl (1992)
• Typhoon Sibyl (1995)

People

• Sybil (singer), or Sybil Lynch, American singer
• Sibyl of Armenia (died 1290), the princess of Antioch and countess of Tripoli
• Sibyl of Burgundy (1126–1150), Queen Consort of Sicily
• Sibyl of Falaise, kinswoman of King Henry I of England
• Sibyl de Neufmarché (1100–1143), Countess of Hereford, suo jure Lady of Brecknock, Cambro-Norman noblewoman
• Sybil (wife of Pain fitzJohn) (12th century), wife of Pain fitzJohn and Josce de Dinan
• Sybil (given name)

Ships

• HMS Sibyl (1779), 28-gun Enterprise-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy
• SS Sybil (1901), a Uganda Railway Lake Victoria ferry scuttled in 1967
• HMS Sibyl (P217), an S class submarine
• HMS Sibyl (R15), C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during World War II
• Sybil Marston (ship), a wooden schooner cargo ship
• USS Sibyl (1863), wooden-hull steamer with heavy guns, purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War

Other uses

• Sybil, a two-handed card flourish created by American magician Chris Kenner
• Sybil (cat) (2006–2009), cat living at 11 and 10 Downing Street in the United Kingdom
• Sybil attack, the use of stolen or forged multiple identities for defeating a reputation system
• Sibil, another name for Ngalum, a language of New Guinea
• Sibyl System, the primary system that judges individuals in the anime Psycho-Pass

See also

• Cybil (disambiguation)
• Sibille (disambiguation)
• Sibylla (disambiguation)
• Sibylle (disambiguation)
• Sybil Vane (disambiguation)
• "The Song of the Sibyl", a Gregorian chant sung on Christmas Eve in Majorca

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This page was last edited on 21 April 2024, at 04:47