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In Greece, the evil eye is trending

By Jenny Lower — September 21, 2017
ATHENS, Greece (RNS) — The growing popularity of the mati, the 'all-seeing eyeball,' appears to reflect a growing interest in New Age spirituality as well as the psychological toll of Greece’s ongoing debt crisis.

Connecticut slave to get a long overdue church funeral

By Ann Marie Somma — August 27, 2013
(RNS) The slave's master, a Waterbury bone doctor by the name of Preserved Porter, stripped his skin, boiled his bones and used the skeleton as a medical specimen.
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