The term meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme, which comes from Ancient Greek mīmēma (μίμημα; pronounced [míːmɛːma]), meaning 'imitated thing', itself from mimeisthai (μιμεῖσθαι, 'to imitate'), from mimos (μῖμος, 'mime').
People collect all sorts of memorabilia from where they travel.
Collecting elephant trinkets is a superstition, a strong meme that survived as a pagan tradition, supposedly bringing you or your household all good characteristics associated with elephants.
Even if you are not superstitious, collecting elephant trinkets may be sensible, they don’t weigh or cost much, therefore they make perfect presents.
We bought these elephant trinkets in Bodrum, from 3 different shops.
From right to left, the single blue elephant with embedded evil eye design costed us 75 YTL, the orange elephant costed 50 YTL, and the 7 elephants with embedded evil eye design connected by a rope, and additional evil eye beads costed 25 YTL.
We cut the rope and obtained 7 elephant pieces, identical to the ones we bought individually.
Each elephant rescued from the rope costed 3.5 YTL. Ignoring the cost of evil eye beads, they were 14 to 20 times cheaper than the other options.
You should never hope to have good deals when you travel - a tourist, by definition is an idiot, a clown to be cheated and made fun of.
Lets now wish, rescued elephants would not escape to the wild or crush their mahout.
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