In an old mid winter carol, Mary punishes Jesus for walkong across the water to retrieve a ball and there by allowing everyone to see one of his famous miracles. She swats with a willow withe, through his tears he cries.

" Oh cused be to the cruel withy, which causes me to smart, For you shall be the only tree to perish right from the heart."

Guilt and biblical ruin by association saddly. Otherwise not an evil tree really. Not like the vile Box Elder or those Godless Russian Olives.

Don Meixner