Word: hexed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he fails, death is God's will. Mental illness is always rated as supernatural, and the "hex" must be taken off by prayer or some magic ritual. But because the brujos understand the Mexican-American psychology, they score higher than doctors in curing mental illness...
...Hex. The underlying story comes from Greek myth via the Hippolytus of Euripides. Hippolytus is the bastard son of Theseus, slayer of the Minotaur, and Hippolyte, single-breasted queen of the Amazons. He lives in the home of Theseus and Theseus' young bride Phaedra. An outdoors he-man sort, Hippolytus neglects the service of Aphrodite, goddess of love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays...