SEEKERS IN SICILY


“Demeter’s Well-Beloved Children”


SEEKERS IN SICILY

BEING A QUEST FOR PERSEPHONE

BY JANE AND PERIPATETICA


Done into the Vernacular

By

Elizabeth Bisland and Anne Hoyt


NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMIX

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD


Copyright, 1909

By JOHN LANE COMPANY


To

ANDERS AND FRAU ZORN

from the North, in memory

of the Sun and the South,

this book is inscribed

BY

A Pair of “Word Braiders”


NOTE

THE designs upon the cover of this book, and at the heads of the chapters, are the tribe signs or totems of the original inhabitants of the island of Sicily, which have survived all conquests and races and are still considered as tokens of good luck and defenders from the Evil-eye.