
Credit: Reading Eagle: Jameson Sempey
Speaker discusses Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, talismans at Heritage Center
There were no ghost stories at the Berks County Heritage Center on Sunday afternoon, no tales of UFO sightings or mind reading. Instead it was a tour through the paranormal history of the Pennsylvania Dutch, stories of hexes and charms to ward off evil.
The heritage center hosted "Hex Signs and Himmelsbriefs: Pennsylvania Germans and the Supernatural," a lecture by Candace Kintzer Perry, curator of the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Montgomery County.
Himmelsbriefs were words written on paper, kept to ward off evil spirits.
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