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The city of Pompeii in Italy gets hundreds of of tourists every . It is one of Italy's big tourist destinations. Most tourists leave the 2,000-year-old city with memories, photos and , but some take more. They take historic , like small statues, stones or tiles. Many people are now regretting this. They say the relics are cursed and have filled their lives with bad . A senior official at Pompeii said he has had hundreds of relics from across the world returned. Many apologised and wrote about their bad luck.

The senior , Massimo Osanna, said one from Latin America wrote about his life being full of after he got from Italy with a tile from Pompeii. A man from Spain returned five , including a bronze statue he stole in 1987. He complained that the statue had put, "a on his entire family". Mr Osanna now wants to set up an of all the letters he has received. He said the letters might be more than the relics. He added: "It's not that the stolen pieces are highly interesting or valuable. It's the letters."

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