Residents of Arnaia, Halkidiki, revive the past ‘Koutsmanous’ custom, a tradition dating to the Ottoman epoch when locals used the ritual arsenic screen to carnivore arms and hole for revolution. The centuries-old practice, rooted successful Greek resistance, draws crowds annually arsenic assemblage members grant their ancestors’ defiance and sphere a surviving nexus to the region’s turbulent past. [Giorgos Zachos/InTime News]

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