Notas

1

«Incarnation», in Man, Myth & Magic. An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural, XI, ed. Richard Cavendish (New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1970), 1420.

2

Ibid.

3

Ibid.

4

Edwin Sidney Hartland, The legend of Perseus, The Supernatural Birth (London: David Nutt, 1894), I, 71-108.

5

Jocelyn Woodward, Perseus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937), 4-5.

6

Hartland, 125.

7

Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, trans. John Bostock and H. T. Riley (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), Book X, Chapter 51, 516-17. Pliny also relates that in Lusitania «the mares, by turning their faces towards the west wind as it blows, become impregnated by its breezes, and that the foals which are conceived in this way are remarkable for their extreme fleetness» (Book VIII, Chapter 67, 322).

8

Hartland, 142-43.

9

Ibid., 143.

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