Worry beads or kombolói, kompoloi (Greek: κομπολόι, bead collection; plural: κομπολόγια, ) is a string of beads manipulated with one hand and used to pass time in Greek and Cypriot culture. They were especially popular until the middle of the 20th century.
Unlike the similar prayer beads used in many religious traditions, including the Greek Orthodox komboskini, worry beads have no religious or ceremonial purpose.
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“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 6:25.26.
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—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)