[566] op. cit. cap. x. Actually the earliest reference to the Callicantzari which I have found occurs in La description et histoire de l’isle de Scios ou Chios by Jerosme Justinian, p. 61, where he says, Ils tiennent ... qu’il y a de certains esprits qui courent par les grands chemins, et sont nommez Calican, Saros. But inasmuch as he does not record even the name correctly, his statement that these beings are esprits can have little weight as against that of Leo Allatius.
[567] Das Volksleben, p. 143.
[568] Παραδόσεις, I. pp. 331–81, and II. pp. 1242–4.
[569] Πολίτης, Παραδ. II. 1257.
[570] The Cyclades, pp. 360 and 388. Bent does not seem to have known the ordinary form καλλικάντζαροι.
[571] Abbott, Maced. Folklore, p. 73.
[572] Λαμπρίδης, Ζαγοριακά, p. 209.
[573] In this, the ordinary, sense the word appears twice in Passow’s Popularia Carm. nos. 142 and 200. See also his index, s.v. καλιουντσήδαις. The Turks themselves borrowed the word qālioum (our ‘galleon’) from the Franks.
[574] Πολίτης, Παραδ. II. pp. 1242 and 1244.
[575] Das Volksleben, p. 144.