Apollo made known his oracles through the medium of a sibyl. […] The fishermen who had found it in their nets, sought the oracle to consult its responses. […] In this convulsive state, she spoke the oracles of the deity, often with loud howlings and cries, and her articulations were taken down by the priest, and set in order. […] In the height of their misery they sought the oracle, which declared that their calamity would not cease, until Callirhoe was sacrificed, unless some one could be found to pay the penalty for her. […] Alcyone, the daughter of Æolus, married Ceyx, who was drowned as he was going to Claros to consult an oracle.