Note 565 — Chapter II · THE SURVIVAL OF PAGAN DEITIES. (continued 4)
Reading edition
The word ζωτικά which is sometimes heard in the Cyclades is, I suspect, merely a corrupt form of ξωτικά (on which see above, p. 67); some writers however have derived it from the root of ζάω. But at any rate in usage it denotes the same class of beings as the commoner form ξωτικά.