It can be placed on someone as a kind of protection, but a hex can also be placed on someone in a negative way to really manipulate the person and to change the person's own will.
So in general a hex can be used negatively, but it does not have to. It is a manipulation to control other people to make them act in a special way, not in their own nature.
It can be used to help others, if we want them to be safe from being harmed.
The word dates back to the early 1800's and in these times this word only meant "to do witchcraft". It comes from Pennsylvanian Dutch - it was the equivalent to the German word "hexen", which still only means to do witchcraft.
The term had originally Norwegian Roots; it came also from Germany …show more content…
So if I would have no other choice I would use a hex, if I could maybe save for example my child.
It is very important to know what a "Hex" really is, because with a hex we can do positive but also negative things.
It is possible to do something for the well of everybody with a hex - but to do this we have to know really all facts. So it is important to look at really everything, every little detail, before we're putting a hex on someone, because even when it's for their best (as we think it is so), it still is manipulative. We can use a hex to protect, to keep others from being harmed (like we protect children, because we know some things better) - but we're putting our will on their's.
As witchcraft was seen as a bad thing in the old days a "hex" is also connected to be something bad - in these times everything was seen as bad black magic, which was not Christian. Many people see in the term "hex" a negative thing, because it manipulates others. They say, that a hex is too much manipulative magic, because we're interfering with other person's will.
But we have to see, that in general a hex is no bad magic if we do not make it to