Sycorax
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Sycorax is described as an evil witch and the mother of Caliban in Shakespeare's play *The Tempest*. Caliban refers to Setebos as Sycorax's god. The text implies Sycorax is a powerful figure associated with the deity Setebos.
When
- First attested
- 1611 CE
- Attested period
- 1611 – 1611
- Historical notes
- Character in Shakespeare's The Tempest, first performed on 1 November 1611.
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Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“By worshipping the god which Antonio Pigafetta describes as being worshipped by the Patagonian Indians of the storm-beaten wilderness of Tierra del Fuego, Sycorax is identified with the most remote, God-forsaken and degenerate of sixteenth-century Amerindian types. ... If Prospero is to be believed, Sycorax has had intercourse with”
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