[270.5] Theocritus, xx. Cf. vi., where the object is expressly to ward off the Evil Eye.
[271.1] Pliny, xxviii. 7. Cf. the Italian custom mentioned by De Mensignac, 56.
[271.2] ii. Brand, 573 note. See ante, pp. [67], [132].
[271.3] i. Rivista, 618; ii. 155.
[271.4] iii. Am Urquell, 57. The Girondins also spit on the wads of their wooden shoes before flinging them out, to avoid the fourcat, a kind of corn which grows in the fork of the great toe. De Mensignac, 54.
[271.5] Von Wlislocki, Siebenb. Sachs., 110, 116.
[271.6] iii. Am Urquell, 108.
[272.1] Georgeakis, 343.
[272.2] v. Journ. Am. F.L., 63.
[272.3] Pliny, xxviii. 7; xvii. Pitrè, 243; xv. 136.