Love beads are one of the traditional accoutrements of hippies. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world They consist of one or more long strings of beads, frequently handmade, worn about the neck by both genders. A bead is a small decorative object that is pierced for threading or stringing The love bead trend probably evolved from the hippie fascination with non-Western cultures, such as those of India and Native America, which make common use of similar beads. Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate" generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States
Some believe that when one's string of love beads breaks, they are soon to fall in love.