I first heard of Hex while reading "Hexcraft: Dutch Country Powwow Magic" by Silver Ravenwolf (later renamed American Folk Magic) over ten years ago. I came across Hex in my local thrift store and bought it without looking at it too closely because it was so cheap. When I got home I discovered my copy was very old and came with an original "Letter of Protection" that originally came with the book.

Hex chronicles the murder of Nelson Rehmeye, a local powwow practit More...

This book is about the murder of Nelson Rehmeyer. Rehmeyer was murdered by a group of three men for supposedly hexing them and when he refused to give them a lock of hair or 'The Long Lost Friend' they ended up killing him.
This book goes into details of Rehmeyer and the three men that were supposedly hexed by him, details of the murder and the trials afterwards. Also lots of informations about Pennsylvania and witchcraft in Pennsylvania. There were interviews with different people who wer More...

I tried to get into the book, but the author's delivery was lacking.

Some PA history and even discusses people I knew.

HEX by Arthur H. Lewis (1970)

Local murder in the 1920s as told by a newspaper reporter. Tedious style, without flow, even paragraphs were disjointed

Interesting from a local story point of view, and how we have changed the whold court system The murder took place Nov 28, and all three accused were tried and imprisoned by the end of January! 2 had court-appointed attorneys, other hired an attorney after his large family pooled their money to hire one for him!