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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Authoressed Opera | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Not for Burning | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Finest Time of the Year | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bewitched Judges | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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