In the book 'Holes', Stanley Yelnats Great-Great Grandfather doesn't carry the old gypsy up the mountain on the last day of carrying for the pig. In the end, it was said that because Stanley carried zero up the mountain, that the bad-luck stroke was broken. One problem though, the mountain that his Great-Great Grandfather used was in Scandinavia. The one he carried Zero up was in America. If so, then how can the curse be broken if they occurred on completely different mountains and countries?