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Ralph Bellamy also offers a satisfactory performance. The story is such, however, that there is little opportunity to develop any emotional power or sequence of action. "Spitfire" falls into the current motion picture habit of abbreviating. The existence of Hex superstitions is indicated only by a few statements on the part of some of the local characters. A more skillful scenario writer would have given an interesting picture-illustration of this unusual phenomenon of present-day America...
...Hofnagel is a well-to-do farmer of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, known and respected from Allentown to Lancaster as a potent "hex-doctor." A seventh son, he believes implicitly in his own powers. He informs a village woman that if she would know which of several suitors to accept, she should put initialed onions beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits...
...Greensburg. Pa.. Clifford Jones, Negro hex doctor, told two clients that their husbands had other wives. Enraged, the women went home, soundly thrashed their mates. Police arrested Hexer Jones, charged him with obtaining money under false pretences...
...squaw's body really dead. Of dead fingernails and toenails they made a powder to put in the drinking water of their enemies. Of the superstition that this potion would cause its quaffer a loathsome disease (diabetes mixed with scurvy) they had high hopes. Caught at their hex, they were brought last week by tribefellows before a court at Price, Utah. Their defense: "We were only having fun." Their sentence: one to five years in gaol...
Then it was unnecessary to take the book or the lock of hair. The hex was broken; the old devilish witch was dead...