Lisa wards off the blue feather curse hanging a green handbag at the front door filled with the whites of three eggs, sauerkraut, chicken fat and cream cheese. Eb counteracts Lisa's handbag with a red purse containing jelly, goose liver, bicarbonate of soda, egg yolks and three hairs from a cow's tail.
Adjusted for inflation, the $8 anti-hex powder would equal approximately $70 in the year 2023. The $236 for the 24-hour anti-hex treatment would equal about $2,100, and the $132 Lisa pays Mr. Haney would equal about $1,200. The $4.85 Sam Drucker charges for the jelly, etc., would equal approximately $43.
Ken and Mitch refer to the farmhouse as a kind of "Haight-Ashbury," a tongue-in-cheek allusion to a place, taking its name from the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets in San Francisco, California, that has become perhaps the most salient representation of the 'hippie' or bohemian lifestyle, a.k.a. the counterculture, prevalent among many youths in the late 1960's. Ken and Mitch's style of clothing, matching a stereotypical Gypsy attire, fit the style embraced by the Haight-Ashbury set.
Haney charges Lisa $8 to sprinkle her with his Grandma Haney's "de-hexifying powder." It only lasts a half-hour--but the 24-hour treatment is available for $236. She does purchase his secret hex-breaking recipe for $132.