evil eye vs hex

evil eye

noun
  • A curse. 

  • A wicked look that is believed by many cultures to be able to cause injury or bad luck due to envy or dislike. 

hex

noun
  • An evil spell or curse. 

  • A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft). 

  • A hexagonal space on a game board. 

  • A witch. 

  • a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock. 

verb
  • To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. 

How often have the words evil eye and hex occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )