[526] Leo Allatius (De quor. Graec. opinat. cap. ix.) makes the period a week only, ending on New Year’s Day.
[527] For dialectic varieties of this name from Macedonia, the Peloponnese, Crete, and some of the Cyclades, see Πολίτης, Παραδ., II. 1256.
[528] ὁ μεγάλος or ὁ πρῶτος καλλικάντζαρος. Also, according to Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. p. 369, ὁ ἀρχικαλλικάντζαρος. In Constantinople (acc. to Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. 343) he has a proper name Μαντρακοῦκος, which however I cannot interpret satisfactorily.
[529] ὁ κουτσοδαίμονας, or simply ὁ κουτσὸς, ὁ χωλός. Cf. B. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, pp. 152–4.
[530] The sequence of these cocks varies locally; their order is sometimes black, white, red.
[531] Lucian, Philops. cap. 14.
[532] So Leo Allatius, De quor. Graec. opin. cap. ix.
[533] Several other versions in the same vein are recorded, cf. B. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, p. 151, Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. pp. 337–41 and II. p. 1305.
[534] Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. p. 372.
[535] For this version see Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην. I. p. 229.