In late November 1928, a killing in a remote York County, Pennsylvania hollow became one of America’s most notorious intersections of folk belief, fear, sensational journalism, and criminal justice. Nelson D. Rehmeyer—a farmer and practitioner of Pennsylvania German ritual healing commonly called powwowing—was beaten, strangled, and burned inside his home by three people who believed he had cursed them. Often reduced to a “witch murder” or ghost-story shorthand, the Hex Hollo