When I checked into an Athens Airbnb yesterday, my host Marina gave me a brief tour. Near the rental’s front door, I spotted an evil eye amulet, Greece’s ubiquitous blue symbol of protection against negativity. Marina pointed out an “even more special” good luck symbol hanging on the opposite wall: a tile with an abstract rendering of the Punic-Phoenici…
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