A proto-crop circle made an appearance in a comic book over 60 years ago. In “The Hidden Hex!” (World of Fantasy #7, May 1957), a series of calamities – floods, fires, tornadoes – follow the removal of protective hex signs from a newcomer’s property in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Problems cease only after the foreman secretly fashions a hex sign in the owner’s field. The geometric design is a striking precursor to crop circles that appeared many years later.
A variant of this tale, “Hex Marks the Spot,” appeared in Eerie #25, January 1970. In this story, a farmer’s skeptical wife forces her husband to remove the hex signs from their house and barn, after which the barn burns down and a demon comes to their house to kill them. Fortunately, the farmer had the foresight to create a hex sign in his wheat field, and the demon is thwarted by this crude but effective crop circle.
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