Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals

by J. C. Lawson

[137] B. Schmidt, Märchen, etc. no. XX.

[138] Plutarch, de defect. orac. 17.

[139] Idyll. I. 15.

[140] Ps. 91. 6.

[141] De quorumdam Graecorum opinationibus, cap. VIII.

[142] Du Cange, Lex. med. et infim. Latin, s.v.

[143] Clarke, Catalogue of Sculptures in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

[144] The population of Eleusis, as of many villages in Attica, is mainly Albanian; but they have inherited many of the old Greek superstitions and customs.

[145] Lenormant, Monographie de la voie sacrée éleusinienne, p. 399 ff.

[146] “The diminutive in Albanian of Nicolas is Kolio: in the choice of this name is there not a reminiscence of that of Celeus?”—so Lenormant in a note. The suggestion does not appear to me very probable.