Supposedly, he had a great-great-grandfather who had stolen a pig from a one-legged Gypsy, and she put a curse on him and all his descendants. Stanley and his parents didn’t believe in curses, of course, but whenever anything went wrong, it felt good to be able to blame someone.

—Holes,
Louis Sachar

In the passage, the description of the Gypsy tells about atrait.

The description of Stanley and his parents tells about atrait.