title: Siatista-Macedonia : The Spirit of Hellenism
author:  James C. Siotas 
description: James C. Siotas lived for a number of years in the Elmira and central New York state area upon emigration from Siatista, where he had been self-employed in the retail fur business. Later he returned to Greece and was employed by the US Government. Siotas now releases this innovative work of literature as a resident of Athens, Greece.
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  The Evil Eye
  
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  # The Evil Eye
  
  
  ### Mary Shelley
  
  
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  The wild Albanian kirtled to his knee,
  
  
  With shawl-girt head, and ornamented gun,
  
  
  And gold-embroider'd garments, fair to see;
  
  
  The crimson-scarfed man of Macedon.--Lord Byron 1 .
  
  
  The Moreot, Katusthius Ziani, travelled wearily, and in fear of its
  
  
  robber-inhabitants, through the pashalik of Yannina; yet he had no
  
  
  cause for dread. Did he arrive, tired and hungry, in a solitary
  
  
  village--did he find himself in the uninhabited wilds suddenly
  
  
  surrounded by a band of Klephts--or in the larger towns did he shrink
  
  
  at finding himself sole of his race among the savage mountaineers and
  
  
  despotic Turk--as soon as he announced himself the Pobratimo 2 of
  
  
  Dmitri of the Evil Eye, every hand was held out, every voice spoke
  
  
  welcome.
  
  
  The Albanian, Dmitri, was a native of the village of Kor