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hex sign

n. (context paganism English) A protective symbol used in Heathenry comprising of a six petaled flower or star set within a circle.

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Usage examples of "hex sign".

As he pulled into the driveway, he noticed that weeds had grown up around the garden gnomes and there was a patina of dust on the Dutch hex sign over the front door.

If the hex sign and arrow could be believed, it would bring them to the hoped-for Quislon border.

The last thing I found was an evil hex sign on a tree in the woods.

He waited in boredom for her hand to make the backcountry hex sign against evil mutations, but it only jerked and clenched into a fist.

He waited in boredom for her hand to make the back-country hex sign against evil mutations, but it only jerked and clenched into a fist.

No long stares, no rude gestures or comments, not even one covert old hex sign against mutation.

Someone had painted a hex sign at the threshold of the door: a red triangle and a blue one interlocking to form a six-pointed star, and in the center a small ankh traced in silver.

Someone had tied a big orange-and-black hex sign to one side of the light, and on the other side, the side facing away from town and out into the hostile world, was the evil eye, painted against a white background in vivid, shocking red.