Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study...

[399] Hahn, Griech. Märchen, II. no. 84. Cf. also no. 58.

[400]Χουρμούζης, Κρητικά, pp. 69, 70.

[401] This belief however is not universal in Greece; in some few districts a Nereid now, like a wolf in ancient times, is safer seen first than seeing first.

[402] Apoll. Rhod. Argon. II. 477 sqq.

[403] i.e. past participle passive of ξεραίνω (anc. ξηραίνω).

[404] Hom. Od. XIII. 103–4.

[405]De quorumdam Graec. opinat. cap. xix.

[406]Id.XIII. 39 sqq.

[407] So I translate χελιδόνιον on the authority of a muleteer whom I hired at Olympia; the modern form is χελιδόνι. It may be added that in Greece the cuckoo-flower is often of a dark enough shade to justify the epithet κυάνεον.

[408] Artem. Oneirocr. II. 27.

[409] Cf. Bern. Schmidt, op. cit. p. 102. Χουρμούζης, Κρητικά, p. 69. Δελτίον τῆς Ἱιστορ. καὶ Ἐθνολ. Ἑταιρίας τῆς Ἑλλάδος, II. p. 122.

[410] Inscription on rock at entrance now barely legible. Cf. Paus. X. 32. 5, Strabo IX. 3, Aesch. Eum. 22.

[411] Cf. Ulrichs, Reisen und Forschungen in Griechenland, I. p. 119, Bern. Schmidt, op. cit. p. 103.

[412] Heuzey, Le mont Olympe et l’Acarnanie, pp. 204–5.

[413] Hom. Od. VI. 105.

[414] Bern. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, p. 107. The title ἡ μεγάλη κυρά must not be confused with the title ἡ κυρὰ τοῦ κόσμου (see above p. 89), which belongs to Demeter.

[415]Ibid.

[416] Cf. Paus. VIII. 35. 8, whence it appears probable that the nymph Καλλιστώ was once identical with Artemis; see Preller, Griech. Mythol. p. 304.

[417]Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην.I. p. 227.

[418] Apoll. Rhod. III. 877. Callim. Hymn to Artemis, 15.

[419] From Onorio Belli, Descrizione dell’ isola di Candia, in Museum of Classical Antiqu., vol. II. p. 271. Cf. B. Schmidt, op. cit. p. 108. Spratt, Trav. in Crete, I. p. 146.

[420] Du Cange, Gloss. med. et infim. Latin. s.v. Diana.

[421] Above, p. 119.

[422]Orph. Hymn 36 (35) ad fin.

[423]De quor. Graec. opinat. cap. xx.

[424] For these two names see above, p. 21.

[425] For the Callicantzari see below, p. 190.

[426] For Burcolakes or Vrykolakes see below, cap. IV.

[427]pulcras dominas, a translation of the Nereids’ title καλὰς ἀρχόντισσας, ibid. cap. XIX.

[428] The title-page of this exceedingly rare work runs as follows:—

La description et histoire de l’isle de Scios ou Chios par Jerosme Justinian

Gentil’homme ordinaire de la chambre du Roy Tres-Chrestien, fils de Seigneur Vincent Justinian, l’un des Seigneurs de la dite Isle, Chevalier de l’ordre de sa Majesté, Conseiller en son Conseil d’Estat et Privé, et Ambassadeur extraordinaire du Roy, auprez de Sultan Selin, Grand Seigneur de Constantinople.

M.D.VI.

In the copy formerly belonging to the historian Finlay and now in the possession of the British School of Archaeology at Athens is found a note by Finlay as follows:—‘Joh. Wilh. Zinkeisen in Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches in Europa (Gotha, 1854), vol. ii. p. 90, note 2, mentions a second printed copy as existing in the Mazarine Library at Paris, and a manuscript copy in possession of Justiniani family at Genoa. The date according to Zinkeisen should be not MDVI but MDCVI.’ There is no designation of the press or place from which the volume issued.

[429]op. cit. bk vi. p. 59.

[430] See above, p. 140.

[431]Das Volksleben der Neugriechen, pp. 107 and 123.

[432] Compare Märchen, etc. Song 56 and Stories 7, 19, with Das Volksleben, p. 123.

[433] Bern. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, p. 129.

[434] See above, p. 121.