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Psara is a small island in the Aegean Sea in Greece. It is located west of Chios, 3.5 kilometers away. It is known for its long-standing maritime tradition, thyme honey, local cheese, and the lobsters caught in its waters.

It is a place steeped in history; its inhabitants distinguished themselves during the national liberation struggle against the Ottoman Empire. They are particularly known for the massacre carried out by the Turks on June 21, 1824, during the struggle for freedom.

In fact, the first of the island’s most famous legends is related to the destruction of the island by the Ottoman Turks. The locals say that on the very day of the destruction, every year on June 21, voices, drums, and battle cries can be heard from beyond.

The second legend is said to have taken place shortly before the destruction. At that time, there was a feud among the monks on Mount Athos; the so-called "Kolivades" were one of the factions.

Many of the "Kolivades" were expelled, so they found refuge on the Aegean islands, where they founded monasteries.

One of these monasteries was the Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary in Psara.

It is said that every night the monks would send a young man to bring them food. He did the shopping for the monastery, went to his mother’s house where he slept for a while, and then got up without knowing what time it was.

On his way to the monastery, he saw about 20 women, all dressed in white. Curious to find out what was going on, the young man went to speak to them, but they didn’t speak to him; instead, they grabbed him and began dancing with him without saying a word.

From their ecstatic atmosphere, the young man realized that the girls were actually fairies; as soon as he realized this, he began to pray silently. Around midnight, they led him to a deserted location and simply left him there without another word. In fact, it is said that out of fear, the young man never left his house at night again.

Here we see a blending of Christianity with older beliefs; the ideas of nymphs and fairies living in the mountains are one of the main elements of ancient Greek religion. These beliefs have survived, as we can still see even in recent years.

The third story perhaps refers to the snakes that are said to have once been numerous in Psara. However, one day a priest went to celebrate Mass at the little church of Saint Matrona, a local saint who lived and died on the nearby island of Chios.

When he took the Holy Chalice to administer Holy Communion, he saw a snake inside it. There are two versions of what happened next: some say she cursed it and all the other snakes on the island, while others say he took the snake, was forced to eat it, but this exhausted him mentally, so he begged Jesus Christ to rid the island of snakes.

It is said that the soil in the area where the little church is located , which is actually called “phidolakos” (meaning a pit full of snakes showing how many the snakes were before this took place ) is such that anyone having a problem with snakes in their home should take some of it and scatter it or place it in a corner. The snakes seem to be afraid of this soil and disappear.

They say that many people from all over Greece go to Psara to get some of this soil to deal with the snakes.

Some even claim that from time to time, many have experimented by bringing snakes from other islands to Psara and releasing them to see what would happen. The snakes moved around for a while and then suddenly died.

Trigger warning : Φόνοι , αρκετό βρισίδι , ίσως αναταράξει κάποιους πιο ευαίσθητους.

Τίτλος : Κρέας

Σκηνοθεσία / Σενάριο : Δημήτρης Νάκος

Έτος παραγωγής : 2024

Εταιρεία παραγωγής : Φαντασία Οπτικοακουστική ΕΒΕ

Είδος : Δράμα

Μικρή σύνοψη : Κάπου στην Ελληνική επαρχία ένα ντόπιο μικρολαμόγιο ο Τάκης είναι έτοιμος να ανοίξει το νέο του κρεοπωλείο.

Τα πράγματα μπλέκουν όταν ένας γείτονας δολοφονείται μετά από σκηνικό με τον Παύλο γιο του Τάκη και το Χρήστο έναν νεαρό Αλβανό που έχουν χρόνια στη δουλειά.

Ακολουθεί ένας κύκλος γεμάτος μαλώματα , βρισίδι , βία και αποκαλύψεις με φόντο το ποιος θα πάρει την ευθύνη για τη δολοφονία.

Προσωπική άποψη : Δραματική ταινία που δείχνει σκηνικά τα οποία μεν είναι όντως αρκετά πιθανό να συμβούν / συμβαίνουν , απλά προσωπική άποψη απέχει λίγο από το τι ρεαλιστικά θα είχε γίνει / γίνεται σε τέτοια περιστατικά. Επαρχία μένω , πολλά γίνονται εδώ.

Το σενάριο έχει ροή με ενδιαφέροντες διαλόγους και plot twists χωρίς όμως αυτό να το δίνει κάτι πολύ παραπάνω σε σχέση με άλλες που κινούνται στα ίδια πλαίσια. Ακολουθεί τα ίδια κλισέ του Ελληνικού κινηματογράφου αλλά , ναι , το κάνει πολύ καλύτερα.

Η υποκριτική ρεαλιστικότατη η μουσική υπόκρουση όμορφη , τα τοπία όμορφα χωρίς να επισκιάζουν τη ταινία.

Προτείνεται : Ούτε κρύο , ούτε ζέστη. Δε θα χάσεις το χρόνο σου άμα τη δεις , ούτε όμως δε θα προσπεράσεις τη ταινιάρα άμα δε το κάνεις.

Βαθμολογία : 6/10 , θα έβαζα 4 για το κλισέ σενάριο και τη μη ρεαλιστικότητα αλλά το ανεβάζουν τα plot twists και η υποκριτική.

Ατάκες που ξεχώρισα : Όχι κάποια ιδιαιτέρως.

The story I am about to tell didn't happen to me but I saw it with my bear eyes 2018, while I was in a neighborhood of a large city in Greece.

These events took place in a very old but relatively well-maintained house on the eastern edge of the neighborhood. There lived an elderly couple.

These strange events began when the man of the house got angry with his wife, ( until then they had seemed like a loving couple ) because the food she had made was a too salty , he didn't want to eat it.

The argument quickly escalated , the husband grabbed a frying pan and hurled it at his wife, who managed to react quickly and dodge it.

Hearing the commotion, almost the entire neighborhood came out to see exactly what was happening. The man had turned red, was spitting constantly, cursing and screaming, and sometimes falling to the ground.

About five of us approached him and held him, trying to calm him down, but it was no use. He was cursing at someone , yelling at him , then he started to seem like he was afraid. We tried to talk to him but couldn't , he seemed to be in his own world.

As soon as calmed a little down he started falling to the ground again. This time, in addition to what he had mentioned earlier, the previously quiet gentleman looked as if someone were beating him. It seemed as though he was trying to dodge punches, trying to defend himself against something we couldn’t see but that had terrified us immensely.

After half an hour of what literally looked like someone invisible to us was beating him, he came to his senses and told us the following: “I got angry with my wife and threw a frying pan at her; she dodged it, and the pan fell to the floor. A little demon came out of the floor and told me that because I hit it, he’d come every day to get revenge and beat me for half an hour until he gets bored or forever.”

Over the next few days, every day from 2:00 to 2:30 p.m., we heard shouting and cursing coming from his house. He himself looked beaten and battered every day, as if someone were actually beating him.

This ordeal lasted quite a while, a little over a month. In September, his wife called a priest to perform an exorcism on him. The exorcisms lasted about a week.

He seemed much calmer and less distressed, but during the exorcism, many inarticulate screams could be heard coming from their house.

As soon as things calmed down, they left the house completely and moved in with their eldest son at his apartment.

They tried to sell the house but were unable to do so; it still stands abandoned on the edge of the neighborhood, as most people are afraid to go near it.

You see, after what happened in recent years, it is considered haunted.

Είδα ένα ποστ στο οποίο στο οποίο ο OP ρώτησε να διηγηθούν wholesome περιστατικά με αγνώστους. Δε πρόλαβα να απαντήσω οπότε λέω να γράψω το περιστατικό ξεχωριστά.

Το 2016 , ήμουν σε μια αρκετά άσχημη φάση της ζωής μου για γενικώς ζητήματα τα οποία τώρα μου φαίνονται αστεία αλλά τότε όταν ήμουν 20 μου φαίνονταν βουνό.

Η πόλη είχε δύο βιβλιοθήκες , η μία ή Δημοτική* και μια ακόμα μικρή την οποία την είχε φτιάξει ένας εφοπλιστής με καταγωγή από τη πόλη ή οποία έκλεισε το 2019 για κάποιο λόγο άγνωστο.

Η δεύτερη στεγάζονταν δίπλα από το αμφιθέατρο του διοικητηρίου , καθόμουν εκεί και διάβαζα ( συνταγές νομίζω όχι ότι παίζει κανένα ρόλο ) , φανερά στεναχωρημένος.

Ήταν Δεκέμβριος λίγο πριν τα Χριστούγεννα.

Στο αμφιθέατρο είχε εκδήλωση ο σύλλογος πολιτών της πόλης μου* με καταγωγή από ένα μικρό νησί.

Μάλιστα μου είχε κάνει εντύπωση γιατί αγνοούσα πλήρως την ύπαρξη αυτού του συλλόγου.

Ήρθε μια εντελώς άγνωστη σε εμένα κυρία , με χτύπησε τη πλάτη και απλά μου είπε " Καλά Χριστούγεννα αγόρι μου ". Δε ξέρω γιατί αλλά με συγκίνησε τόσο πολύ που ακόμα το σκέφτομαι.

*Κάπου στην επαρχία , το που δεν έχει σημασία σε θέλω να αυτοντοξαριστώ.

Hello from Greece.

I try to search for the most complicated list of the old calendarist fractions.

The ones that are easily to find online ( in like Wikipedia ) seem to have not been updated since some years now. Also many of the list have contracting info.

I've had personal experience with them and I know that they are culty , have no intention to convert.

I'm just curious to learn.

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The story I’m about to tell you took place some years ago, in 2022 and 2023. At the time, I had just started boxing and went to practice in the evenings, Monday through Friday.

Almost every day, mostly out of habit and not because it was closer, I would pass through a specific part of my city.

From 1990 to 2010, that area was full of small cafes, coffeehouses , bars, and some “shaby bars.”*

Some are still there but today, most of the shops have been replaced by other businesses unrelated to serving drinks.

One evening, as I was walking through there rather hurriedly because I was running late for boxing practice.

As I walked, I clearly saw a shop with a sign outside that read “Café The Meeting.” I thought, “A new café here? Come on, man! Lately, everything’s been closing down.” But I didn’t think much of it. As far as I remember, the place had a 2000s vibe, but I was in such a hurry that nothing strange crossed my mind , didn't have much time to think.

The next day, before practice, I decided to go back there to check out this new place up close.

But what a surprise! I couldn’t find the place anywhere. I looked down the street I’d walked down yesterday, once, twice, but nothing.

A year went by, and every now and then I’d think about the story. It just so happened that I had some business at a bank located in that area.

I arrived and decided to go sit at a café nearby because the bank wasn’t open yet. Since I was there, I asked the café owner about the “ghost café” I had seen the previous year.

The owner told me that the café had indeed existed but had closed over ten years ago. I immediately pulled out my phone and looked it up on Google Street View—and sure enough, the café was real.

I have no idea how this happened. It’s perhaps one of the most mind-blowing / metaphysical / glitch-in-the-matrix things I’ve ever experienced.

*You know those bars where the waitresses and bartenders will “hang out” with the customers for an extra fee.

Τίτλος : Νυκτερινός Εκφωνητής. Σκηνοθεσία : Ρένος Χαραλαμπίδης. Έτος παραγωγής : 2024.

Μικρή σύνοψη : Το βράδυ που κλείνει τα πενήντα του ο νυκτερινός Εκφωνητής ενός τηλεοπτικού σταθμού αποφασίζει να κλείσει ένα λογαριασμό που άνοιξε πριν πολλά χρόνια. Ο λογαριασμός είναι μια πρώην του που προσπαθεί να τη βρει , παίζοντας στον αέρα τα μυνήματα που άφηναν ο ένας στον άλλο χρόνια πριν ως που να χωρίσουν.

Προσωπική άποψη : Πολύ όμορφο σενάριο , μιλάει για ένα αρκετά λυπητερό θέμα , χωρίς όμως να γίνεται καταθλιπτικό.

Φοβερή εικόνα , σκηνοθεσία και η μουσική επένδυση , η υποκριτική του Ρένου Χαραλαμπίδη πιστικότατη.

Προτείνεται : Ναι ! Αμα σου αρέσουν οι αργές σινεφίλ , σοφιστικέ ταινίες είναι φοβερή.

Βαθμολογία : 9,50 /10 , κάπου στη μέση έγινε λίγο βαρετή.

Ατάκες που ξεχώρισα :

1 - Ωριμότητα σημαίνει να παίζεις στο ίδιο έργο χωρίς λάθη.

2 - Το πιο ωραίο πράγμα στη ζωή είναι να αρχίσεις.

3 - Ίσως μερικά τηλεφωνήματα έχουν μεγαλύτερη αξία άμα δε γίνουν.

Γενικά κάνω φασίνα.

Αλλά αυτή τη συγκεκριμένη δουλειά δεν την έχω κάνει ποτέ ξανά.

Την έκανε πρώτη η μάνα μου , μετά η πρώην μου και τώρα ξανά που γύρισα εδώ και 2 χρόνια σπίτι ή μάνα μου πάλι.

Είμαι πολύ ADHD για να καταλάβω μόνος πως γίνεται.

Κράξιμο ελεύθερα αλλά παρακαλώ πολύ , βοήθεια.