[397] Ροκάνι, mod. Gk., is literally a carpenter’s plane.
[398] These threshing-machines are still used amongst the tribes in Asia Minor: a board of pine-wood set with flint stones at the bottom, fixed along the grain of the wood. Cf. Isaiah xli, 15: “The new sharp threshing instrument having teeth.”
[399] These palmaria, or wooden reaping-gloves, are still common in the highlands of Asia Minor.
[400] Refers to the old form of magic of sticking with pins or knives a figure made to represent an enemy.
[401] Marquis de Nointel. ([Vide Introduction.])
[402] Wafer given in return for a coin.
[403] The sea-horse.
[404] Huff = blow or puff. “The said winde within the earth, able to huffe up the ground.” (P. Holland, Plinie, bk. ii, ch. 85.)
[405] Βρουκολακες. A common superstition still all over Greece is that dead men return as ghosts, and suck the blood of the living.
[406] Evil spirits called Karakongilas, or Kalkagari, are still believed, in remote parts of Greece, to haunt the world and play all kinds of pranks between Christmas and Epiphany.