person
The Witch of Endor
the woman at Endor
also: the medium of Endor
The medium whom Saul, abandoned by the Lord, secretly consults to raise the dead Samuel; she alone tends him after the apparition foretells his fall (1 Samuel 28).
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §11 the woman at Endor
The medium of Endor, who calls up Samuel's ghost for the desperate Saul and afterward, against her will, feeds the broken king.