[227] Κωνστ. Κανελλάκης, Χιακὰ Ἀνάλεκτα, pp. 335 and 339.
[228] Newton, Travels and Discoveries in the Levant, I. p. 212. The exact details of the custom in each place are given below, p. [406].
[229] See below, pp. [433]-[4].
[230] In Rhodes, according to Newton, l.c., the Christian symbol Ι. Χ. Ν. Κ. is combined with that to which I now come, the ‘pentacle.’
[231] Cf. Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, I. 573, where it is said that in Myconos the symbol is sometimes carved on house doors to keep vrykolakes (on which see below, cap. [IV.]) from troubling the inmates at night.
[232] Cf. Lucian, ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἐν τῇ προσαγορεύσει πταίσματος, 5.
[233] apud Pausan. x. 28. 1.
[234] e.g. Eur. Alc. 252, 361, Heracl. 432, Arist. Ran. 184 ff., Lysistr. 606, Plut. 278.
[235] Suidas s.v.
[236] Pollux, 8, 102.