Police at first labeled the murder as nothing more than the outcome of yet another “hillbilly mountain feud.”
In Mummey’s case, though, there was something more sinister. Local lore had cast the old farm woman as a practitioner of a dark art known in Pennsylvania Dutch country as Hexerei.
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Neighbors told of curses Mummey put on them and their livestock and said they lived in fear of the powers of the “Witch of Ringtown Valley.”
Source: ‘Witch’ murdered in Pennsylvania Dutch country over hex – NY Daily News
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