[514] _De quor. Graec. opinat._ cap. ix. [515] Πολίτης, Παραδ. II. 1245. [516] _Ibid._ II. 1245. It might equally well however, as Polites suggests, mean ‘deceivers,’ from the active πλανάω, ‘to lead astray.’ [517] So explained by Πολίτης, _op. cit._ 1247. [518] _Ibid._ II. 1245. [519] Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. p. 370 (from Syra). [520] _Ibid._ II. 1293 (from Myconos). [521] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην. I. p. 230. [522] Πολίτης, Παραδ. II. p. 1291. In the Museum they are numbered 10333-4. [523] Κανελλάκης, Χιακὰ Ἀνάλεκτα, p. 367. [524] Πολίτης, Παραδ. II. p. 1323. [525] Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 148, and Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. p. 333. [526] Leo Allatius (_De quor. Graec. opinat._ cap. ix.) makes the period a week only, ending on New Year’s Day. [527] For dialectic varieties of this name from Macedonia, the Peloponnese, Crete, and some of the Cyclades, see Πολίτης, Παραδ., II. 1256. [528] ὁ μεγάλος or ὁ πρῶτος καλλικάντζαρος. Also, according to Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. p. 369, ὁ ἀρχικαλλικάντζαρος. In Constantinople (acc. to Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. 343) he has a proper name Μαντρακοῦκος, which however I cannot interpret satisfactorily. [529] ὁ κουτσοδαίμονας, or simply ὁ κουτσὸς, ὁ χωλός. Cf. B. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, pp. 152-4. [530] The sequence of these cocks varies locally; their order is sometimes black, white, red. [531] Lucian, _Philops._ cap. 14. [532] So Leo Allatius, _De quor. Graec. opin._ cap. ix. [533] Several other versions in the same vein are recorded, cf. B. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 151, Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. pp. 337-41 and II. p. 1305. [534] Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. p. 372. [535] For this version see Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην. I. p. 229. [536] See above, p. 149. [537] Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. p. 338 (from Samos). [538] Mod. Gk χαμολι̯ό, Anc. χαμαιλέων. [539] Ἐφημ. τῶν Φιλομαθῶν, 1862, p. 1909. [540] Πολίτης, Παραδ. I. 347. [541] _Ibid._ I. 356. [542] _Ibid._ I. 338. [543] _Ibid._ I. 342. [544] ψίχα, ψίχα λουκάνικο, κομμάτι ξεροτήγανο, νὰ φᾶν οἱ Καλλικάντζαροι, νὰ φύγουνε ’στὸν τόπο τους. For other versions see B. Schmidt, _Das Volksl._ p. 150, and Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, I. 342. [545] Cf. Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην. III. 154. [546] Cf. Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, I. p. 357. [547] _Ibid._ II. p. 1308. [548] Abbott, _Maced. Folklore_, p. 74. [549] _Voyage de la Grèce_, VI. p. 157. [550] Δελτίον τῆς Ἱστορ. καὶ Ἐθνολ. Ἑταιρ. τῆς Ἑλλάδος, II. pp. 137-141. [551] Ἰ. Μιχαήλ, Μακεδονικά, p. 39. Πολίτης, Παραδ. II. 1251 note 2. [552] _loc. cit._ [553] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθην. III. pp. 66 and 156. [554] Παραδόσεις, i. p. 334. [555] The word means literally men whose attendant _genii_ ( στοιχει̯ά, on which see the next section) are ‘light’ ( ἀλαφρός) instead of being solid and steady. The temperament of such persons is ill-balanced in ordinary affairs, but peculiarly sensitive to supernatural influences; it often involves the gift of second sight and other similar faculties.