their wrath, now to cajole them into kindness; the professed prophets of either sort, the priests and the witches, are endowed with kindred powers; everywhere there is overlapping and intertwining. And when the very authorities of the Greek Church have adopted or connived at so much of pagan belief and custom, how should the common-folk distinguish any longer the twin elements in their blended faith? Their Christianity has become homogeneous with their paganism, and it is the religious spirit inherited from their pagan ancestors by which both alike are animated. FOOTNOTES: [1] VIII. 38. 7. [2] _Oneirocr._ II. 34 and 37. [3] i.e. (ὀμ)μάτι(ον), diminutive of ὄμμα. [4] Also locally βιστυρι̯ά, a word whose origin I cannot trace. [5] Ἰ. Σ. Ἀρχελάου, ἡ Σινασός, p. 90. [6] Theocr. _Id._ VI. 39. [7] Sonnini de Magnoncourt, _Voyage en Grèce et en Turquie_, vol. II. p. 99. [8] Κωνστ. Κανελλάκης, Χιακὰ Ἀνάλεκτα, p. 360, cf. Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστορία τῶν Ἀθηναίων, vol. III. p. 146. [9] In Athens, among other places, cf. Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστορία τῶν Ἀθηναίων, vol. III. p. 69. [10] Verg. _Ecl._ III. 103. [11] In Sinasos the rule is strict in regard to both, cf. Ἰ. Σ. Ἀρχελάου, ἡ Σινασός, pp. 83, 93. [12] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθηναίων, vol. III. p. 146. [13] _Ibid._ p. 64. [14] Cf. Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθηναίων, vol. III. p. 41. [15] The Church of the Annunciation, for example, in Tenos, possesses an ἅγι̯ασμα as well as its miraculous _icon_. This spring was in high repute before the _icon_ was discovered, cf. Μαυρομαρᾶ, Ἱστ. τῆς Τήνου, p. 102 (a translation of Salonis, _Voyage à Tine_ (Paris 1809)). The _icon_ was discovered only just before the Greek War of Independence. [16] Καμπούρογλου, Μνημεῖα τῆς Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθηναίων, vol. III. p. 5. [17] The banishment of suffering etc. to the mountains is an idea to be met with in ancient Greek literature, cf. Orphic Hymn, no. 19, ἀλλὰ, μάκαρ, θυμὸν βαρὺν ἔμβαλε κύμασι πόντου ἠδ’ ὀρέων κορυφῇσι. [18] Cf. Ἰ. Σ. Ἀρχελάου, ἡ Σινασός, p. 87. [19] _Ibid._ p. 88. [20] Theocr. _Id._ II. 28. [21] _Ibid._ 53. [22] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Ἀθ. vol. III. p. 21. [23] This is probably the modern form of ἐμπόδευμα, ‘entanglement.’ The change of initial ε to α is not rare in dialect, cf. ἄρμος for ἔρμος (= ἔρημος) ‘miserable’; and υ, with sound of English _v_, is regularly lost before μ. [24] See below, pp. 60 ff. [25] _Voyage en Grèce et en Turquie_, II. 140. [26] Below, pp. 61 ff. [27] Καμπούρογλου, Ἱστ. τῶν Αθηναίων, vol. III. p. 60. [28] Plato, _Charm._ § 8 (p. 155).