Note 1067 — Chapter XLI · THE FISH OF TOBIAS—DEMONIC POSSESSION
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Cf. R. Campbell Thompson, Semitic Magic, p. 18. Not analogous but not unakin seems the passage in Theocritus (Idyll, II. 28-9) of the love-slighted maiden melting the wax, “so that Delphis may be soon wasted by my love.” Diaper (in his Nereides or Sea Eclogues) imitates the scene, but for the waxen image of the lover and its wasting, substitutes a poor dog-fish, which is pierced so as to torture Phorbas by proxy. Cf. Virgil, Ecl., VIII. 80.