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The title of the article is «Curse that scared a thief». The author of the article is Graham Bell. It was published from the Sunday Express. The main idea of the article is the husband gave his wife a beautiful, expensive ring, and it was stolen. No one has heard about the ring for more than 2 years, when suddenly it was returned to the owner back. The author comments on the fact, that the ring was rediscovered when he was returning home after a walk with his dog. That is, it was a surprise for him.

The author starts be telling the readers how the ring was stolen more than two years ago, and the thieves were never tracked down. And that Hector Bonilla still guesses why it was returned. The author reports at length about the day he bought the ring and started a conversation with two aborigines. It was then that tribal protection was imposed on the ring and anyone who steals it will be unlucky and feel bad. It was disclosed, that when the ring was stolen, Mr. Bonello remembered and uttered a curse, a code phrase that two aborigines once told him. After that, a story about the curse was published in a local newspaper. The article concludes by saying, that Mr. Bonallo will never know for sure what made the thieves return the ring, but he felt that the curse worked, so he will not reveal that secret phrase.

I found the article interesting, because there is a mystery in it that has not been fully solved.