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Snollygosters averted by hex symbols. Every barn in Pennsylvania Dutch territory used to have a hex symbol displayed prominently.They took witchcraft seriously.
"Hexe" means witch, and the symbols mostly had a hexagon inscribed inside a circle, with a wide range of subdividing patterns of triangles. I have wondered what the etymologic relationship is between "Hexe" and "hexagon".
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