pythoness

noun2

1. •
   A female soothsayer
2. •
   A female python.

   • On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs. — 1862

noun1

1. •
   The priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.

   • Less becomingly Origen states that when the Pythoness sat down at the mouth of the cave, "the prophetic spirit of Apollo entered her private parts"; ... — 1913