Whether compelled by guilt or superstition, more and more tourists are returning items they lifted from Italian cultural sites
Some of the repentant sinners may be compelled by guilt, others by superstition.
But Italian museum curators and archeological officers have observed a trend of tourists who, having pilfered artefacts from cultural sites, return them, years later, with a heartfelt letter of confession.
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