I. tale was first printed in Richard M. Dorson, Collecting Folklore in Jonesport, Maine, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, CI (x957), 287. 2. Dorson cites Irwin T. Sanders, Rainbow in the Rock: People of Rural Greece (Cambridge, Mass., 1962), as the source for this statement. Although Sanders does not state how he gained possession of this information, the story as attributed to Saint Nicholas is quite common in Greece. 3. Most writers on Greek folk religion suggest direct transference from Helios to Saint Elias. See, for instance, John C. Lawson, Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion (Cambridge, 1910), 44; and Mary Hamilton, The Pagan Element in the Names of Annual of the British School at Athens, XIII (1906-1907), 348-356. For one of the few opposing views, see Hippolyte Delehaye, Legends of the Saints, tr. Donald Attwater (London, 1962), 135-136. 4. translation, from Polites' Paradhoseis, I, No. 208, is given in Mary Hamilton's Greek Saints and Their Festivals (I9Io), 23 n. I.