In her new spiritual memoir" titled Finding Magic, veteran journalist Sally Quinn ... the widow of legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee ... describes her lifelong belief in the occult and worries that hexes she once put on three people may have worked. "My family were Scots," [said Quinn]. "They all believed in Scottish myths and mysticism and the stones and psychic behavior and ghosts and astrology and palmistry and all that. And then of course we all went to church. So I had this kind of two-pronged religious upbringing. I would say my prayers to God and Jesus every night ... but I also believed in all this other stuff. When I was in my late 20s and early 30s, there were three people who hurt me in some way, or (hurt) somebody I loved, and so I decided to put a hex on them. I had never done it before. What I wanted to have happen was for them to feel what I had felt. I didn't mean for them to die." One person died right away, another person got fired immediately and then died, and then the other one died. I've never done it again. And believe me, since (Donald) Trump was elected, and since the election, I can't tell you how many friends have asked me to put a hex on Donald Trump, and I won't do it. I just said no. I don't do that anymore." The environment right now is more toxic and more poisonous than I've ever seen....(But I have) still been able to pull away and still find a sense of faith and joy and magic in the world."