Plural of hex; multiple curses, spells, or instances of bringing bad luck.
From Pennsylvania Dutch 'hexe' (to bewitch) via German 'Hexe' (witch), with English plural '-es'. The term traveled from German settlers into American English.
The phrase 'hexes and hexers' became such a fixture of Appalachian folklore that anthropologists studying these communities in the 1900s often mistook authentic folk magical systems for superstition rather than cultural practices.
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