Pagan theology, the Pythias or priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles internally, without any action of the mouth or lips. The ancient philosophers, and others, are divided upon the subject of the engastrimythi. Hippocrates mentions this peculiar manifestation as a disease; others will have it a kind of divination; others again attribute it to the operation or possession of an evil spirit; and others to art and mechanism. Scottus maintains that the engastrimythi were poets, who, when the priests could not speak, supplied the defect by explaining in verse what Apollo dictated in the cavity of the sacred tripod.

Engen, a bailiwick in the circle of the Lake of the Duchy of Baden, in Germany, containing one market town, with eighteen hamlets and 9500 inhabitants, the capital of which is situated on the river Aaeh, is of the same name, and contains 211 houses and 1204 inhabitants.