[556] Supernatural donkeys with the same habits are known also in Crete under the name of ἀνασκελᾶδες (prob. formed from ἀνάσκελα, ‘on one’s back,’ the position in which the rider soon finds himself).
[557] Πολίτης, Παραδ. i. p. 342, from Γ. Λουκᾶς, Φιλολ. ἐπισκ. p. 12.
[558] Πολίτης, Παραδ. i. 338.
[559] Luke iii. 22.
[561] De quorundam Graec. opinat. cap. x.
[562] Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, ii. p. 1286.
[563] Ἐμαν. Μανωλακάκης, Καρπαθιακά, p. 130.
[564] Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις i. p. 344.
[565] The word ζωτικά which is sometimes heard in the Cyclades is, I suspect, merely a corrupt form of ξωτικά (on which see above, p. [67]); some writers however have derived it from the root of ζάω. But at any rate in usage it denotes the same class of beings as the commoner form ξωτικά.