Discover the magic behind the enchanting Hex symbols. In Pennsylvania Dutch country, among the Old Order Amish and the strict Mennonite congregations who live their lives parallel to modern society, there remains the remnants of one of the oldest European magical practices found in America: Hex, or Hex und Speilwerk, or Pow Wow.
In Hex and Spellwork, third-generation Hexenmeister Karl Herr teaches the actual practices and examines the history of the Swiss-German traditions from which Hex and Pow Wow are derived. Hex work echoes the magical arts that reach back to the beginnings of human civilization. Evoked to assist people in health and earthly prosperity and to achieve what they desire in life, or to counteract the negative spell of a witch, hex is positive magic, never used for evil.
The Bible is a great influence on all Hex work, which originates in the Gospel of Matthew, where Christ insists that people of good heart and a pure soul could perform miracles.
Karl Herr is determined not to let the oral tradition of hex vanish. Among the many practices he's written down in this book are verbal charms for healing, the magic of stones and other natural objects, and folk remedies. Find instructions for creating hex signs, illustrations of traditional hexes and diagrams on how to draw one's own.
