[596] Usener, Acta S. Timothei, p. 11 (Bonn).

[597] Migne, Patrol. Gr.-Lat. Vol. 40, p. 220.

[598] Edited by Cumont.

[599] Balsamon, loc. cit.

[600] Παραδόσεις, II. pp. 1273–4. To this work I am indebted for most of my instances of these celebrations during the ‘Twelve Days.’

[601] Annual of the British School at Athens, VI. p. 125.

[602] Abbott, Macedonian Folklore, p. 31.

[603] R. M. Dawkins, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 26, Part II. (1906), p. 193.

[604] Dawkins, op. cit. p. 201, referring to a pamphlet, περὶ τῶν ἀναστεναρίων καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν παραδόξων ἐθίμων καὶ προλήψεων, ὑπὸ Ἀ. Χουρμουρζιάδου, Constantinople, 1873, p. 22.

[605] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθ. III. p. 162.