[986] The Cyclades, p. 299.
[987] Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, I. p. 577.
[988] Ibid., p. 578.
[989] In Scyros and in Cythnos, as I have noted above, this means of riddance has given place to milder remedies. But in the former I heard of fairly recent cases of vampirism, and in the latter, according to Βάλληνδας (Κυθνιακά, p. 125), the names of several persons (including one woman) who became vrykolakes are still remembered.
[990] Communicated to me by word of mouth in Maina.
[991] ἑορτοπιάσματα (see above, p. [208]), who are commonly regarded as subject to lycanthropy in life and continue the same predatory habits as vampires after death.
[992] Bern. Schmidt, Das Volksleben, p. 162 (from Aráchova).
[993] This belief belongs chiefly, in my experience, to the Cyclades.
[994] Curt. Wachsmuth, Das alte Griechenland im Neuen, p. 117 (from Elis).
[995] Ibid. p. 114 (from Elis). Bern. Schmidt, op. cit. p. 162 (Parnassus district). Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, I. 578 (Calávryta).