when or where does the idiom “albatross around your neck” is used?

It is a line in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and it is a problem resulting from something you did that stops you from being successful.

I haven’t checked this but I think that this is a reference to “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in which the said mariner kills an albatross (considered to be a bad omen) and is therefore forced to wear the dead bird around his neck as a punishment and warning to others. This quite understandably was quite an encumbrance, hence the expression.

I might be wrong here but didn’t it come from the poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’? I seem to recall it from school although the expression may have been around before the poem.

It’s often used to mean a burden.