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Once Upon A Hex

Dennis Boyer

Badger Books Inc.

PO Box 192, Oregon, WI 53575

1932542094 $16.95 www.amazon.com

Once Upon A Hex: A Spiritual Ecology Of The Pennsylvania Germans is an anthology of folklore combining ghost stories from Germany's Rhine valley, Switzerland's pastoral cantons, and France's Alsace, as tales from these and more p...

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