Sibila je riječ koja potiče od grčke riječi sibylla, a koja je označavala proročicu. U antici su se pod sibilama podrazumijevale žene koje su u proročištima davale odgovore na pitanja o budućnosti.
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is prefaced by a quote from Petronius' Satyricon (1st Century A.D.) The passage translates roughly as "I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl at Cumae hanging in a jar, and when the boys said to her 'Sibyl, what do you want?' that one replied 'I want to die'.
Margaret Atwood wrote a poem called "A Sibyl" in The Circle Game (collection).
In the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling, the Divination Professor is called Sybill Trelawney.
In the anime series Simoun, the main characters are priestesses known as sibyllae.