Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Saga

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SA'GA. Literally, a wise woman, deeply versed in religious mysteries (Cic. Div. i. 31. Festus s. Sagaces); whence the more common meaning affixed to the word corresponds with our terms, a witch, sorceress, fortune-teller. (Hor. Od. i. 27. Columell. i. 8. 6. Id. xi. 1. 2.) The annexed figure (Saga/1.1) of a female in a Pompeian painting, who in the original is sitting just outside the door of a miserable thatched hovel, exhibits all the popular characteristics, and seems to exhibit the original type of our nursery witch. The mother Shipton's hat, the magic wand, the dog, and the caldron, are all recorded and depicted in children's story-books.

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