“They’re plastic,” Aris Evangelinos said as he snatched the worry beads from my husband’s hand and put a match to them. The orange and yellow beads were wrapped in flames. Evangelinos waited a moment, ...

The day after Peter Papathanasiou's father died, the house was a blur of visitors. Old ladies in black and mourners brandishing bottles of brandy and jars came to pay their respects in the Greek ...

They’re both a fashion accessory and a means of relieving stress, but Greek worry beads sometimes turn up at antique fairs The string of red beads pictured here was a surprise find in a local antique ...