Duke Psychologists Are Grappling With Black Magic, Hexes DURHAM. N.C.—Duke Univer sity psychiatrists now are grap tiling With black magic.” and hi xing spells" in particular Dr Vernon Kinross-Wright. Duke neuropsychiatrist. recently urged the Southern Medical Association to take a closer look at black magic and hexes. The majority of hex victims have serious mental illnesses, he declared, but some do not. For instance! a 32-year-old man recently camel to Duke Hospital offering from gripping pains in his stomach He couldn't eat. and his thirst was excessive. He believed he was intended to die of starvation, imagining he had been 'spelled" by a local magi cian for having cheated a partner in a business ejeal. He came tn Duke because he had heard that the psychiatrists could hypnotize people and "take things off their minds.” but he reserved the right to visit a "conjure man” in a nearby city before Duke doc tors actually tjreated him. T heard Some three weeks later." Dr. Kinross-Wnght said, that the hex has been success fully removed and the patient was in good health.” This man was not a severe mental case and could not be called such, the Duke doctor de clared. unless the same label were put on most of his friends and rela tives who confirmed the alleged hexing A matt who thinks he has been placed under the influence of a spell is not in a normal state,” the Duke neuropsyehiatrist says. “He must, of course, be highly suggest ible and must also have committed some act that makes him feel guilty."

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