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Glossary Harry Potter Lexicon / Term

Circe [SIR-see]

(Circe) A wizard depicited on the Chocolate Frogs trading card series.

Origin:

Traditionally a figure from greek mythology, best known for her tendency to turn men into the animals they are most like (mostly pigs and dogs). She appears in two sets of stories, that of Jason and the Argonauts (she helps her neice Medea escape with Jason), and that of the Odyssey. She temporarily turns most of Odysseus's men into swine before she gives them directions home.

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