{"product_id":"2940013755512","title":"The Evil Eye","description":"The Moreot, Katusthius Ziani, travelled wearily, and in fear of its\u003cbr\u003erobber-inhabitants, through the pashalik of Yannina; yet he had no cause\u003cbr\u003efor dread. Did he arrive, tired and hungry, in a solitary village--did\u003cbr\u003ehe find himself in the uninhabited wilds suddenly surrounded by a band\u003cbr\u003eof Klephts--or in the larger towns did he shrink at finding himself sole\u003cbr\u003eof his race among the savage mountaineers and despotic Turk--as soon as\u003cbr\u003ehe announced himself the Pobratimo[*] of Dmitri of the Evil Eye, every\u003cbr\u003ehand was held out, every voice spoke welcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[* In Greece, especially in Illyria and Epirus, it is no uncommon thing\u003cbr\u003efor persons of the same sex to swear friendship; the church contains a\u003cbr\u003eritual to consecrate this vow. Two men thus united are called pobratimi,\u003cbr\u003ethe women posestrime.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Albanian, Dmitri, was a native of the village of Korvo. Among the\u003cbr\u003esavage mountains of the district between Yannina and Tepellen, the deep\u003cbr\u003ebroad stream of Argyro-Castro flows; bastioned to the west by abrupt\u003cbr\u003ewood-covered precipices, shadowed to the east by elevated mountains. The\u003cbr\u003ehighest among these is Mount Trebucci; and in a romantic folding of that\u003cbr\u003ehill, distinct with minarets, crowned by a dome rising from out a group\u003cbr\u003eof pyramidal cypresses, is the picturesque village of Korvo. Sheep and\u003cbr\u003egoats form the apparent treasure of its inhabitants; their guns and\u003cbr\u003eyataghans, their warlike habits, and, with them, the noble profession of\u003cbr\u003erobbery, are sources of still greater wealth. Among a race renowned for\u003cbr\u003edauntless courage and sanguinary enterprise, Dmitri was distinguished.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079661994224,"sku":"2940013755512","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013755512_p0.jpg?v=1763589827","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013755512","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}