Circe
Circe noun - (Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine.
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He even immediately bounced back when Circe, an evil sorceress with the power of a demigod, turned him into a pig.
Source: Comic Book / Plastic Man - Circe (as in the evil sorceress who turned Odysseus' men into swine in The Odyssey) is the heroine Sersi, one of the Eternals of Earth and occasionally one of The Avengers.
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Circe is initially a wizened crone, but consuming ten drops of Hercules' blood (which confers his mythic strength to him) de-ages her to a beautiful sorceress.
Source: Film / Hercules (1983)
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