Note 17 — Chapter I · THE DANCING MANIA IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
Probably a corruption of Apotropæi. The expression is constantly met with; for example, in Agricola, Proverbs, No. 497. These are the θεοὶ ἀλεξικάκοι, the dii averrunci of the antients. The fourteen saints, to whose churches (between Bamberg and Coburg) thousands still annually make pilgrimages, are the following: 1. Georgius. 2. Blasius. 3. Erasmus. 4. Vitus. 5. Pantaleon. 6. Christophorus. 7. Dionysius. 8. Cyriacus. 9. Achatius. 10. Eustachius. 11. Ægidius. 12. Margaretha. 13. Catharina. 14. Barbara.