The legend of Perseus, Volume 3 (of 3)

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

^[126.2] Crooke, 8.

^[126.3] Ovid, Metam., iv. 543.

^[128.1] Adele Pellegrino, in i. Rivista, 332.

^[128.2] A. W. Moore, in xxxi. Antiquary, 73.

^[128.3] G. Calvia-Secchi, in i. Rivista, 426.

^[128.4] Knoop, Sagen aus Posen, 273.

^[129.1] Browne, Ethnog. Inishbofin, in iii. Proc. Roy. Ir. Ac., 3rd ser., 360.

^[130.1] Curtin, Hero-Tales, 437.

^[130.2] See Curtin, op. cit., 90, 208, 275, 433.

^[130.3] G. Calvia-Secchi, in i. Rivista, 427. The saint’s question is, of course, an equivocation. “Stai bene?” may be an ironical inquiry after the victim’s health. In Slavonic sagas it is occasionally the devil who is thus petrified. See Grohmann, 278, and ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 505. But they cannot be true, as it is well known that he is still very much alive.