Editing Curses, Hexes and Spells

{{short description|Children's book by Daniel Cohen}}
{{More citations needed|date=June 2010}}
{{Infobox book
| name          = Curses, Hexes and Spells
| title_orig    = 
| image         = Curses, Hexes and Spells (book cover).jpg
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| author        = [[Daniel Cohen (children's writer)|Daniel Cohen]]
| country       = United States
| language      = English
| genre         = 
| publisher     = [[Lippincott Williams & Wilkins]]
| release_date  = November 1, 1974
| media_type    = Print (hardcover and paperback)
| pages         = 125
| isbn          = 0-397-31493-0
| oclc          = 
}}
'''''Curses, Hexes and Spells''''' is a 1974 book by [[Daniel Cohen (children's writer)|Daniel Cohen]]. Marketed as [[Children's literature|children's book]], it explains what "[[curse]]s" are, and describes supposed curses on families (such as the House of [[Atreus]] in Greek mythology, the [[House of Habsburg]] or the [[Kennedy family]]), creatures, places (the [[Bermuda Triangle]], the [[Devil's Sea]]), wanderers (like the [[Flying Dutchman]]) and [[ghost]]s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}} It also describes a few protective [[amulet]]s from supposed "occult" dangers, and briefly touches on [[birthstone]]s.{{Citation needed|date=September 2018}}

''Curses, Hexes, and Spells'' is number 73 on the [[American Library Association]]'s list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/1990_2000.cfm|title=100 Most Frequently Challenged Books: 1990–2000|publisher=[[American Library Association]]|access-date=November 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028091404/http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/1990_2000.cfm|archive-date=October 28, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The book also appears on several other lists of "banned"/challenged books in the United States such as ''[[The New York Times]]'' 50 Most Frequently Banned Books in which it is number 11.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/nation/082297nation-list.html|title=50 Most Frequently Banned Books|last1=Chervokas|first1=Jason|last2=Watson|first2=Tom|date=August 22, 1997|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=November 1, 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Portal |Children's literature}}

[[Category:1974 children's books]]
[[Category:American children's books]]
[[Category:Children's books about magic]]
[[Category:Children's non-fiction books]]


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