[710] Suidas, Λεξικόν, s.v. Μάμας. The statement is corroborated by Codinus, περὶ θεαμάτων, p. 30, who adds to the human victims ‘multitudes of sheep and oxen and fowls.’ From Πολίτης, Μελέτη, p. 141, note 1. [711] Hom. _Il._ VII. 442 ff. [712] Hom. _Il._ XII. 3-33. [713] See below, p. 273. [714] _Agam._ 214. [715] _Agam._ 1418. [716] IV. 9. 1-5. [717] VI. 20. 2-5. [718] Porphyrius, _De abstinentia_, II. 56. Plutarch, _Themistocles_, 13. [719] This view of the story I take from Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, II. p. 1089. [720] V. 4. 4. [721] _Pausanias’ Description of Greece_, III. p. 468. [722] Pausanias, I. 26. 1. [723] Schol. ad Aristoph. _Nubes_, 508. [724] Miss Jane Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, p. 327 ff. [725] See Roscher, _Lexicon d. Mythol._ I. 2468 ff. [726] Lucian, _Alexander vel Pseudomantis_, cap. XIV. [727] See Miss Jane Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_, pp. 17-20, where the two reliefs in question are reproduced. [728] For ballads dealing with this theme, see Πολίτης, Μελέτη, p. 133, and Ᾱραβάντινος, Συλλογὴ δημωδῶν ἀσμάτων τῆς Ἠπείρου, no. 451. [729] Bern. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 197. [730] _Ibid._ p. 198. [731] He used a neuter form, τὰ ἀράπια, which I have not found elsewhere. [732] A similar method of laying _vrykólakes_ is reported from Samos by Πολίτης (Παραδόσεις, I. 580). In this case a wizard ‘took three calves born at one birth and drove them three times round the churchyard, saying some magic words.’ [733] ὁ βῳδοκέφαλας. The story as I give it is not a verbatim report of what I heard; as usual, I had to rely on my memory at the time and make notes afterwards. [734] This is the form which I heard used constantly in the island instead of the more common ποτάμι (τὸ). [735] This however must have been prior to the middle of the 17th century; for a history of the island published in 1657 says, ‘cette Isle ... n’est arrousée d’aucun ruisseau ou fontaine.’ Père François Richard, _Relation de ce qui s’est passé à Santorini_, p. 35. [736] Soph. _Trach._ 10 ff. [737] Formed from the ancient δράκων as Χάρος and Χάροντας from Χάρων. Cf. above, p. 98. There is a feminine δρακόντισσα or δράκισσα. [738] Cf. Philostr. _Vit. Apollon._ III. 8. Aelian, _de natur. anim._ XVI. 39. Bern. Schmidt, _Das Volksleben_, p. 191. [739] Only one variety of dragon, the χαμοδράκι or ‘ground-dragon,’ is often harmless. It is of pastoral tastes and consorts with the ewes and she-goats, and is more noted among the shepherds for its lasciviousness than for any other quality. [740] Artem. _Oneirocr._ II. 13 (p. 101). Cf. Festus, 67, 13.