Cicily Sellis

Cicily Sellis was an Englishwoman who lived in London in 1597-98. During that time she rented a room--an entire room for herself--from Jane Kendall, who also rented a room to William Shakespeare (though Shakespeare shared his with two roommates).

Sellis earned money as a fortune teller, working out of her room in Kendall's boardinghouse. She seduced Lope de Vega when de Vega was due at the Globe Theater to perform a role in King Philip, thus preventing de Vega from interfering with the production of Boudicca.

Sellis may have been a witch, or she may merely have been an extremely cunning and subtle woman. Many incidents she was involved in would seem to have supernatural explanations, but most of these also had more ordinary explanations.