Seeress

His uncle Padrin, as he had taken to calling the seeress consort, sat in a chair not far away. ❋ John Vornholt (2003)

Frowning puzzledly, Candra asked, “Will Farlo be called the seeress consort, too?” ❋ John Vornholt (2003)

The folk of Gaire's Main presently used the sacred spring as a watering place for beast and household; to them the seeress was a senile beggar woman given to strange outbursts and mumbling. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1988)

Added to the unexpected materialization of the seeress was the surprise of her costume. ❋ Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower (N/A)

The seeress is the soothing syrup for mental infants. ❋ Ralph Parlette (1900)

In the early 1990s, they merged their group with one run by a seeress and ex-prostitute named Keledonia Mwerinde, who also received visions from Mary and Jesus; in 1997, they claimed to have 4500 followers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ironically, it was not the disappearance of the Norse Greenlanders that intrigued me, but the powerful image of the pagan seeress, Thorbjorg, giving prophecy in Eirik’s Saga, one of the Vinland Sagas that recounts the establishment of the settlements. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They discover tracks and five dead bodies, frozen, apparent suicides, plus several other graves and the camp of the Laura Sibley outfit out of Los Angeles, a vegetarian sect led by the seeress and professional clairvoyant. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He began to have a hopeful light in his eyes, so she hastily added, “But then I was never a seeress until the tomb either.” ❋ Kresley Cole (2010)

A blind seeress who plays while Cohn sings “with all his might”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When the Norse god Odin journeys to the realm of Hel to ask questions of a long-dead seeress, she tells him: ❋ Carla (2009)

As for the LaSalette apparitions, my understanding is that the seeress herself admitted to getting some things wrong. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the seeress Thorbjorg, following a vision from her god, takes Bibrau as her apprentice. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Three intertwined women share the narrationKatla, a beautiful thrall (the Nordic term for slave), who was born into slavery when Vikings seized her Irish mother; Thorbjorg, a seeress steeped in the pagan Norse religion; and Bibrau, the strange silent child Katla bears after she is brutally raped and disfigured by her master’s son, Torvard Einarsson. ❋ Unknown (2006)

All the priestesses knew that Melite had once been a seeress, but now that she was half-blind and touched in the head, her words were often meaningless. ❋ Gemmell, David (2006)

Then the seeress — her name was Melite — walked with Hekabe to the prophecy flame. ❋ Gemmell, David (2006)

After the dreary duties were done, the queen wished to be closeted with a young seeress she knew from her days there as a priestess. ❋ Gemmell, David (2006)

Varro Did you believe in her prophecies, this seeress? ❋ Unknown (2004)

Theodore Besterman (London: Society for Psychical Research, 1930), p. 142, identifies the two holy women ‘victims’ as ‘the stigmatised German religious seeress Rosalie Putt’ and Benedetta of Viterbo, a paralysed Benedictine nun (died 1915). ❋ W.B. Yeats (1965)