Word: baron
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...curse, inflicted upon the family by a witch burned at the stake by one of Ruthven's ancestors, decrees that each succeeding baron must commit a crime each day or die in agony. Thus exposed, Ruthven must abandon Rose and return to Ruddigore Castle and begin his life of crime. After incurring the displeasure of the ghosts of his ancestors for performing crimes deemed too paltry (he forges his own will and disinherits a son he does not have), Ruthven discovers a way to escape the curse, and, in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style, live happily ever after...