Mangas
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Manges, also known as koutsavakides, is the name of a social group in the Belle Époque era's counterculture of Greece. The nearest English equivalents to the term "mangas" is wide boy, spiv or chav.
A mangas holding a komboloi
Worry beads
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Worry beads or komboloi/kompoloi is a string of beads manipulated with one or two hands and used to pass time in Greek and Cypriot culture. Unlike the similar prayer beads used in many religious tradi
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…its sleeves), a tight belt (used as a knife case), stripe pants, and pointy shoes. Other features of their appearance were their long moustache, their komboloi bead chaplets (κομπολόγια, sing. κομπολόι), and their idiosyncratic manneristic limp-walking (κουτσό βάδισμα). A related social group were the koutsavakides…
Worry beads made from different materials
Komboloi on a tavli board