Illustration from news article: “Alleged Hex Cat Captured.” Pottsville Republican. September 30, 1911

Hex Cat Comic, September 28, 1911- Washington DC Evening Star

The nationally syndicated comic strip The Family Upstairs featured a storyline involving a hex cat, this one clipped from the October 5th, 1911 edition of the El Paso Times. Harriman, the author of the strip, is also the creator of the famous Ignatz Mouse, who's sub-strip features below the main story.

Scene of the 1934 murder of Susan Mummey, from the March 24th, 1934 edition of the Pottsville Republican. Her murderer believed “She sent a black cat down from the skies,” to torment him.

Letter sent to Jacob Rex in February 1945, apparently as warning to end a feud that had begun between the sender and the powwow practitioner, Dennis Rex. Dennis had died a year prior. The text reads:

Hex man,

You may think you can hex

Like plenty other Rexes

The people think it was so bad

Because you come from over the mountain.

Here is a cat for your collection

When you still think you can make hexes

Dennis Rex, famous Braucher from Slatington, PA