After suffering breast cancer twice and years of financial difficulties, a 36-year-old Canadian woman anonymously returned ancient relics she stole from an archaeological park in Pompeii that she visited when she was 20 years old.
The Canadian tourist, who only identified herself as Nicole, blamed her theft of two ancient mosaic tiles, parts of an amphora vase and a piece of ceramics, for the bad luck she suffered for 15 years. She sent the package of her stolen Pompeii artifacts to a travel agent in Pompeii. The artifacts were cursed, she said in her letter of confession.
“I am now 36 and had breast cancer twice. The last time ending in a double mastectomy,” Nicole said in the confession letter, The Guardian reported.
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