Meaning of magicianess | Babel Free

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A female magician.

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“The Magicianeſs Bacoti, keeps conſtant Correſpondence with the Devil (to whom, if ſhe has a Daughter, ſhe offers her as ſoon as ſhe is born,) and if any Mother happen to loſe a Child, ſhe makes her Addreſs to this Magicianeſs, who, by the beat of a Drum, pretends to Summon the Soul of that Child, and tell the Mother, whether its Condition in the other World be Good or otherwiſe.”

“[…] a Magician doth not, amongst learned men, signify a sorcerer or one that is superstitious or devilish; but a wise man, a priest, a prophet; and that the Sybils were Magicianesses, and therefore prophesied most clearly of Christ;”

“For you see, Isis, my sister, the great and beautiful goddess of re-membering, whose true name is Auset, was the most magnificent magicianess in the whole of creation.”

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