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    $ hr ( High credulity and shame , becomes not unfrequently the accomplice in effecting his own ^ misfortune . An archon at Athens , whom we well knew , suffered this calamity for the first month of his marriage , and wa § only released from the bonds of the spell by the repeated prayers , images , and holy water of his chaplain , Several of the houses at Athens are believed to be haunted by a spirit which is called an Arabin ; the moans of one of them were

    frequently heard from the bottom of a well belonging to the house under the Acropolis , in which Mr . Lusieri was lodged , and it was not always easy ta persuade the servants of the family to draw water from the enchanted spring .

    Whether ^ he Turk s have been infected by the Greeks with their superstitions , or brought their fables with them into Europe , they have belief in these fairies also , and denominate them ' Gjns . "

    We saw at Libokavo a large house belonging to a Turk entirely de _ serted , trie court and garden overrun with w ^ eds , and were told that no one would live there as it was haunted by the Gins . The operations of these beings are

    much the ? ame as those of our ghosts ; they create strange noises , and disarrange all fhe household furniture , but are seldom seen .

    P&tiagia , or the all-holy virgin , i ^ the favdufrite of the Greeks ; the Miriervd , of the modern Athenians . TheJreV is scarcely a cottage in * vhi £ fc he > bu'ture , with a lamp

    &Wrt $ 6 g before it , is not seen in a ^ fclie t > f the ' -fr&il , or in a wooden « tt ^ Tfee Wftking and ornartmuirig of these images is a gain-& *\ lt&d $ i i jtftfi ^ orpctim es you

    meet with one of them very neatly executed . A lavish Englishman offered fifty zequins for a saint , I think Demetrius , to a painter at Athens and was refused . A peasant who lived at Athene told me a strange story . 1 was riding in the island of Salamis , and observed a strong young man running by the side of my attend * ant ' s horse , with a little box in his hand in which he had appa- * - rently pollected charity . Inquiring the nature of his petition , he

    told me with tears in his eyes , and with the most solemn asseverations of the truth of his story , that , for some offence , of which he vya ^ not aware , the \ ii £ gin with the infant in her arms , and otherwise so accoutred as not to be mistaken by

    him , appeared before him every night , and jumping on his bed nearly throttled him . He had been to the priest , who could do nothing for him , but observing that the picture of his Panagiil

    appeared rather shabby and worn , suggested that the terrible visitation might not be renewed if the image was adorned with fresh gilding , " I have no money my * self , " continued the Athenian , ** but jam going to Ampelaki and

    Colouri , to beg a few piastres , to pay the painter for his gold . I gave him a trifle , and my attendant , a good-humoured fellow , and a saint . maker by trade , at

    Athens , told the man that he would gild his picture for him at a cheaper rate than he had ever dope for any body before . In the reign ot Theodosius the

    Second , Gamaliel appeared to Lucian , a presbyter of Jerusalem , and told him that himself and St . Stephen wished to be released from the obbcuxe grave \ q vvhick

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    SJate of Religion amongst the Modern Greeks . 43 &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/15/