Note 607 — Chapter II · THE SURVIVAL OF PAGAN DEITIES. (continued 4)
Reading edition
The word is certainly in my experience rare, and is not given in Skarlatos’ Lexicon. But it occurs e.g. in a popular tradition from Thessaly concerning the Callicantzari, in Πολίτης, Παραδόσεις, I. p. 356.