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Pele's Curse is the belief that anything natively from Hawaii such as rocks, sand, pumice, etc. will bring bad luck on whoever took it away from Hawaii. It's believed that the Goddess Pele punishes the thieves until the items are brought back to Hawaii. There are a lot of people who claim that the curse is real. Every year there are thousands of pounds of mail are sent to Hawaii to Pele asking for forgiveness and stating that the curse was real. One postmaster who opens these mails finds that some of the items are not from Hawaii and were random items.
There is no historical context to the curse and was believed to have been started by tour guides and park rangers trying to preserve Hawaii's beauty. It is however illegal to take items from National Parks and is looked down on to take such items and depleting them.
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