Hex Sign - Double Distlefink Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/13/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs

Hex Word History
The word hex is a good example of the sort of borrowing from other languages that occurred in the English-speaking former colonies of Great Britain. German and Swiss immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the late 17th and 18th centuries spoke a dialect of German known as Pennsylvania Dutch. In this dialect hexe was the equivalent of the German verb hexen, "to practice sorcery." The English verb hex, first recorded in the sense "to practice witchcraft" in an 1830 work called Annals of Philadelphia, is borrowed from Pennsylvania Dutch.




Double Distlefink

The Distlefink is the good luck bird of the early Pennsylvania Dutch. The two birds gives a "double measure" of good fortune. The Trinity tulips stand for faith in yourself, faith in what you do and faith in your fellow man. The scalloped border symbolize ocean waves for smooth sailing through life.


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