Note 1322 — Chapter X · ORPHIC MYSTERIES. (continued 2)
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Mr Andrew Lang (Custom and Myth p. 36) conjectures that the ‘use of the mystica vannus Iacchi was a mode of raising a sacred wind analogous to that employed by whirlers of the tundun or bull-roarer’; but with his accustomed frankness Mr Lang owns that like Servius he is ‘only guessing.’