At one of the beaches, a woman in a wet suit had been diving for mussels and turbo-snails. The operculums gleamed a beautiful orange-brown in the sun. She told us they were called the Eyes of St. Lucy (les yeux de St. Lucy) and were used to ward off the "evil eye." The snails, she said, where great boiled and served with aiole (kind of a garlic mayonaise sauce).
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