Note 253 — Chapter III · HARVEST FESTIVALS. The Thargelia, Kallynteria, Plynteria.
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Classical sources for the pharmakos are most fully enumerated by Mannhardt, Myth. Forschungen, pp. 123, 133. For primitive analogies see Frazer, Golden Bough, 2nd ed., vol. III. p. 93, from whom I have taken the instances adduced.