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8-23-2007 @ 10:50AM
AT said...
http://www.geocities.com/athens/7734/albrep2.htm
Just found this online. Hope it helps.
"There are teddy bears, stuffed rabbits, pandas, and I also saw a Mickey Mouse and a Pink Panther. A visiting Albanian-American student remarked that it struck him as horribly sinister, like something out of a Stephen King novel. These things are called "dordolec" (pronounced "dordolets") and are apparently to ward off the evil eye. There have been quite a number of anthropological studies of the evil eye, but none of those I have seen mention this custom, and I was curious to know whether it, like religion, had been suppressed by the Hoxha regime, and if there is anything similar in neighbouring countries."
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