Komboloi

Komboloi is a string of beads played with one or two hands and used to spend some time.

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Unlike the similar prayer beads used in religious traditions, worry beads have no religious role. Many prominent Greeks were users and collectors of worry beads, including former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and business magnate Aristotle Onassis.