Note 1 — V. FOOD AND VEGETATION MAGIC

(1) Even the thrice-learned Dr. Famell quotes apparently with approval the scornful words of Hippolytus, who (he says) “speaks of the Athenians imitating people at the Eleusinian mysteries and showing to the epoptae (initiates) that great and marvelous mystery of perfect revelation—in solemn silence—a CUT CORNSTALK ([gr teqerismenon] [gr stacon]).”—Cults of the Greek States, vol. iii, p. 182.