uncle: it's bad luck to plant or to replant a palo blanco (that type of tree that i pointed to, i don't think that's it's real name).
me: yeah...sure, i hear some strange shit but...
uncle: but nothng your suppose to let them grow wild by themselves, i'm telling you that it's bad luck. your grandfather first bought this property here and there was nothing at all, and he planted a palo blanco over there (pointing out another old palo blanco, rotted to the core) and everyone was telling him hey don't do it, your going to get bad luck, but he didn't belive them. well anyway, after he planted that tree your dad, you Uncle Manuel, and your Uncle Mateo got drafted into the army, and your Uncle Mateo was killed in Vietnam. when he got the news, he went out to the tree and set that mother fucker on fire, just poured gasoline on it, lit it and kept swinging the ax at it, while it was still burning.
there's something about the name Mateo Ruelas too, my greatgrandfather had a brother that died from a disease at a young age named Mateo. my grandfather had a brother too, that died falling off a horse, and my uncle died in Vietnam.
I was never the supersticous type but everytime i go out there i always here stories that just scare the hell out of me. but what do you guys think? are spells, curses, and bad luck real?
