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Updated: May 15, 2025
It was furthermore natural to conclude that as a 'witch' and 'oracle-giver, the priestess belonged to the deity from whom she derived her power.
Zeus, as head of the pantheon, naturally took a distinguished place as patron of oracles; and Apollo's relation to music and inspiration may account in part for the preëminence of his oracular shrine. In many cases, however, the grounds of the choice of a particular deity as oracle-giver escape us.
The oracle-giver and the sorcerer or sorceress are correlated personages in religion. For various reasons in part, perhaps, because of her physical differences from man woman was invested with a certain mystery by ancient nations. Hence the fact that among so many nations witchcraft is associated with woman, and similarly among many nations women perform the functions of the oracle.
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