[192] This expression which I have heard several times is not noticed by Schmidt or Polites. They give, however, ἀγγελοκρούεται, ‘he is being stricken by an angel,’ and other phrases meaning to see, to fear, to be carried away by, an angel, all in the same sense. See Schmidt, _op. cit._ 181, and Πολίτης, Μελέτη, κ.τ.λ. 308. [193] κουμπάρος. The word expresses the relationship in which a godfather stands to the parents of his godson. [194] This story, as I have told it, is not a literal translation, for I could not take down the original. But notes which I set down after hearing it enable me to reproduce it in a form which certainly contains the whole substance and many actual phrases of the version which I heard. [195] Probably meaning the brigand’s ‘comrades.’ The term ξεφτέρι, ‘hawk,’ is commonly so applied. [196] Πολίτης, _op. cit._ p. 246 (from Λελέκης, Δημοτ. ἀνθολ. p. 57). [197] _e.g._ Passow, _Popul. Carm._ nos. 426-429. [198] Σακελλάριος, Κυπριακά, vol. III. p. 48. Cf. Πολίτης, _op. cit._ p. 239. [199] The word for ‘black’ includes the sense of ‘grim,’ ‘gloomy,’ ‘sorrowful.’ Tears are commonly described as ‘black,’ μαῦρα δάκρυα. [200] Passow, _op. cit._ distich no. 1155. [201] Cf. Passow, no. 408. [202] Cf. Passow, nos. 414, 415, 417. [203] Passow, no. 424. [204] Aesch. _Eum._ 237. [205] Fauriel, _Chants populaires de la Grèce Moderne, Discours préliminaire_, p. 85. [206] Schmidt, _Märchen_ etc. Song no. 38. [207] _Ibid._ no. 37. [208] Schmidt, _Märchen_ etc. Song no. 7. [209] _Das Volksleben_, p. 237. [210] _Märchen_ etc. Song no. 10. [211] Πολίτης, Μελέτη κ.τ.λ. p. 272. [212] Passow, no. 371. [213] Ἰατρίδης, Συλλογὴ δημοτ. ἀσμάτων, p. 17. Cf. Schmidt, _op. cit._ p. 236. [214] So in some districts of Macedonia up to the present day; Abbott, _Macedonian Folklore_, p. 193. [215] Πρωτόδικος, περὶ τῆς παρ’ ἡμῖν ταφῆς, p. 14. The form περατίκιον which the writer gives can hardly be popular. It might be, as Schmidt points out, περατίκιν in the local dialect. I have given the form which the word would assume in most districts. [216] Σκορδέλης in the periodical Πανδώρα, XI. p. 449. Cf. Schmidt, _op. cit._ p. 238. [217] περὶ πένθους, § 10. [218] For this term see above, p. 68, and below, p. 283. [219] Below, p. 285. [220] See above, p. 13. [221] Passow, no. 432. [222] This is shown later to be the first form of the superstition. See below, pp. 433-4. [223] Newton, _Travels and Discoveries in the Levant_, I. p. 289 (cited by Schmidt, _das Volksleben_, p. 239). [224] The use of the coin, quite apart from any such variation of the custom, was forbidden by several councils of the Church between the 4th and 7th centuries, cf. Πολίτης, Μελέτη etc. p. 269. [225] Cf. Ricaud, _Annales des conciles généraux et particuliers_ (1773), vol. I. p. 654 (from Πολίτης, Μελέτη, p. 269).