Word: hexed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago, visiting her native Pennsylvania, Composer Wickham got the idea of writing an opera about the Amish and their hexes. There was a hill known as Hex Mountain; why not have it inhabited by an operatic hexer? She spent three months researching, two months writing her libretto and composing her score...
Last week an audience in Plymouth (Mass.) Memorial Hall saw the world premiere of Florence Wickham's The Legend of Hex Mountain. The legend: if the witch Hexi uses her black powers to save a human life, she loses them. But when her son gets in a jam, is threatened with death by the infuriated Amish townspeople, mother love triumphs. She saves him, is threatened with burning at the stake herself. Before that can happen, there is a flash of dazzling light and the ragged hag emerges in shining white, a new woman. She leaves the village...
...Maria Deckx (rhymes with hex) explained to a local judge two weeks ago: "I have always been nice to Mrs. Minnen, but I didn't want a lot of birds around my house. Your honor, what would you, as a judge, do with a bunch of sparrows?" Judge Albert Boone solemnly turned to his two colleagues on the bench and put the question to them, but they could only shrug their shoulders in answer...