Word: prophetesses
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...dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through man-high bush, infested with mamba snakes, lions and man-eating chiggers, to the mud-and-thatch village where lives the prophetess, Lenshina Mulenga (see RELIGION...
...Among Prophetess Dixon's successful long-range auguries: Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in the spring of 1945, Truman's re-election in 1948, Bulganin's displacement of Malenkov as U.S.S.R. Premier, the Eisenhower landslide in 1952, and Ike's illness in Denver last fall...
...fifty-third production the Cercle Francais presented a new play by ex-Harvard Professor Baldensberger on the tempting theme of Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess. This version of the story may be good French literature, but it certainly is not good theatre. It has an undoubted appeal for the many students who can understand French when it is spoken rapidly, but apart from this esoteric group the appeal is definitely limited, since a reading knowledge will not suffice...
Though the author makes Cassandra, whom Shakspeare wisely treated as a minor character, the center of his play, he fails in giving any clear picture of the tragic prophetess, and his play is a mere retelling of the familiar events encompassing the fall of Troy. Added to this the acting was insufficient to carry the foreign language. One of the major players, an officer, was far more interested in the audience than in the play and turned constantly to face them. This kind of acting is typically high-schoolish. Bright spot in the evening was Aesop, of fable fame...
...Miriam the prophetess . . . took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.-Exodus...