Well here's a fucking weird one for ya boys! My woman's family all forcibly cut ties with her aunt. I am talking full radio silence, changed the locks on their houses and refuse to even speak to her. I've met this woman several times and she seemed nice enough. She was divorcing my my wife's uncle and some other typical shit. I don't know them too well or anything as they all live in Ukraine but I figured it was typical life bullshit.
But what really piqued my interest is even her cousin cut ties with his mom (the aunt) and will not allow her anywhere near his own family for any reason. To the extent that he will not allow family photos to be taken and circulated via facebook or whatever out of fear that his own mother might get her hands on them.
To this I was all, wait a minute. What the fuck? That is batshit insane. But it got weirder. I asked what had caused this, had she attacked anyone or some other insanity? Nope nope nope. Even more bizarre. I don't pretend to be deeply ingrained on East European culture/Ukrainian culture or anything but there is a very mainstream belief in various superstitions. My wife describes this as black magic/white magic for some reason... I kind of figured it was just like gypsy nonsense that is common in Europe. But people in Ukraine do like going to fortune tellers and all that garbage. I generally didn't think much of it other than believing it was kind of stupid.
Apparently the belief in this is quite strong. The cousin caught his mom on his home camera system coming in and pouring blood on stuff and doing weird satanic shit or something I shit you not. This is why they are divorced now. I laughed about this and my wife got super pissed. I am not sure how you want me to react to something I find so completely absurd lol. She tells me that I may not believe any of it but it is real and causes bad things.
Yeah okay. Enjoy your gypsy nonsense. Don't care. Sorry your uncle and aunt to divorce though. I guess.