Word: hexed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veteran Reuben Rock. The soldier's body was dug up and stripped of its uniform, which was sprinkled with gasoline and burned. Then the body was dusted with salt, wrapped in a white sheet and gently reburied. Relatives announced that this was the only means of breaking a "hex" which he had cast on his widow, 22-year-old Mrs. Rosella Rock...
Fall, with its memories of the American past, belonged to the country-to Pennsylvania's huge, hex-marked barns, to the aching distances of the Great Plains, to the great old houses, the sharecroppers' shacks and black soil of the Mississippi Delta, to Montana's Bitterroot Mountains and the foaming rivers and screaming headsaws of the Pacific Northwest. Last week, north, south, east and west, the U.S. was a fat and prosperous land...
Witch Sinkanda shows up, Timothy is literally led to Hell. By day she's just one of shiftless Mr. Farr's many daughters, but at night she's up to all sorts of fearful business. She can slip in through a keyhole, hex the unwary and fly through the night air. When Timothy throws his Bible in the fireplace and burns the house down while two of its occupants are asleep, it looks like an accident, but Sinkanda knows better. She and Tim have an affair that is both earthy and unearthly. Together they fly to Hell...
Sneak Attack. In Memphis, Railroad Worker Earskin Johnson sued for divorce, charged that his wife had asked a voodoo doctor to hex him into giving her his whole paycheck...
...complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...