He cursed her with a hex? It never fails to astonish me that people still believe in magic in the 21st Century.
Agreed, and it astonishes me when people who purport to have devoted their lives to bringing others closer to God appear to have aligned themselves with a far darker force. I wasn't aware that casting hexes was part of Christianity.
When I was working at a public library, books on witchcraft and magic (sorcery, not Houdini-style prestidigitation, which is classified under "magic tricks") were among the ones most stolen.