Note 1531 — Chapter XI · ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY. (continued 2)
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The story that the heads of the murdered husbands were buried in or near Lerna apart from their bodies may have been merely aetiological and based on the practice of calling the brim of a well κεφαλή. Cf. our ‘well-head,’ ‘fountain-head.’ Latin caput aquae. It is not my purpose here to examine completely the Danaid myth save in so far as the Danaides were contaminated with the Uninitiated in Hades. The folklore of the subject has been well collected by Dr Campbell Bonner, Trans. American Philol. Ass. vol. XXXI. 1900, II. p. 27.