among the modern Greeks, denotes the spectre of some wicked person who died excommunicated by the patriarch, reanimated by the devil, and causing great disturbance among the people; of which many strange stories are told. The word is Greek, and is sometimes written θεραπεύοντες, bourkola-keros; and supposed to be derived from θεραπεύοντες, or θεραπεύοντες, "mud," and λάκκος, a "ditch," on account of the thinness of the sight.