[311] To form a chain of dancers the leader, who occupies the extreme right, is linked to the second in the row by a kerchief, while the rest merely join hands. More freedom of motion is thus allowed to the chief performer. [312] Cf. also Hahn, _Griech. Märchen_, vol. II. no. 77. Ἀντ. Βάλληνδας, Κυθνιακά, p. 123. [313] The crowing of the third cock is more usually the signal for the departure of Nereids and their kind. It is commonly held that the white cock crows first, the red second, and the black third. The last is a sure saviour from the assaults of all manner of demons. [314] Similar transformations occur in a Cretan story, the forms assumed being those of dog, snake, camel, and fire. Χουρμούζης, Κρητικά, p. 69. [315] Cf. Apollodorus, III. 13. 5. [316] Bern. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 104, quoting Ritschl, _Ino Leucothea_, Pl. I., II. (1 and 2), III.; and referring to a sarcophagus in the Corsini Gallery at Rome, figured in _Monum. Ined._ vol. VI. Pl. XXVI. [317] Hom. _Od._ 5. 346 sqq. and 459 sqq. [318] Ἀντ. Βάλληνδας, Κυθνιακά, p. 123. [319] The women of Scopelos on certain festal occasions wear a dress which may well be the same as the classical ὀρθοστάδιον, a loose pleated robe falling from the shoulders and widening as it falls, so that their figures resemble a fluted column too broad at the base and too tapering at the top. [320] Hahn, _Griechische Märchen_, vol. II. no. 83. Χουρμούζης, Κρητικά, p. 69. [321] Cf. a folk-song quoted by Ross, _Reisen auf Inseln_, III. p. 180, Σὲ μονοδένδριν μὴ ἀναιβῇς, ’στοὺς κάμπους μὴ καταίβῃς, καὶ ’στὸν ἀπάνω ποταμὸν μὴ παίζῃς τὸ περνιαῦλι, κῂ ἐρθοῦν καὶ μονομαζευθοῦν τοῦ ποταμοῦ ’νερᾷδες, ‘Go not up to the solitary tree, go not down to the lowlands, beside the torrent above play not thy pipes, lest the Nereids of the stream come and swarm thick about thee.’ [322] Lexicon, s.v. ῥάμνος, ἐν ταῖς γενέσεσι τῶν παιδίων χρίουσι (πίττῃ) τὰς οἰκίας εἰς ἀπέλασιν τῶν δαιμόνων. [323] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστορία τῶν Ἀθηναίων, III. p. 32. [324] Cf. Welcker, _Kleine Schriften_, 3. 197-9; Rohde, _Psyche_, I. p. 360, note 1. [325] Cf. Hom. _Od._ XI. 48 ff. and Eustathius, _ad loc._ [326] Ζ. Δ. Γαβαλᾶς, Ἡ νῆσος Φολέγανδρος, p. 29. [327] _Reisen auf Inseln_, etc. III. pp. 181-2. [328] _C.I.G._, no. 6201 (from Bern. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, etc. p. 122 note). Τοῖς πάρος οὖν μύθοις πιστεύσατε· παῖδα γὰρ ἐσθλὴν | ἥρπασαν ὡς τερπνὴν Ναΐδες, οὐ Θάνατος. [329] Ἐμ. Μανωλακάκης, Καρπαθιακά, p. 129. There are also compounds ἐξωπαρμένος and ἀλλοπαρμένος with the same meaning. [330] Plato, _Phaedr._ XV. (238 D). [331] _Ibid._ 229 A, B; 230 B; 242 A; 279 B. [332] Cf. Leo Allatius, _De quor. Graec. opin._ cap. xx. ‘potissimum si fluentis aquarum solum irrigetur.’