Note 560 — Chapter V · THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS.
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The gadfly is purely incidental to Io as cow. Oistros is an incarnation of the distraction caused by the ghost. On a vase-painting representing the slaying of her children by Medea, Oistros (inscribed) is represented as a figure in a chariot drawn by snakes, and near at hand is ‘the ghost of Aietes’ (inscribed) who sent it. (Arch. Zeit. 1847, T. 3.)