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Definition of hoodoo in English: hoodoonounPlural hoodoos ˈhuːduːˈhuˌdu 1mass noun Voodoo or witchcraft. as modifier a visit to a local hoodoo doctor Example sentencesExamples - But while walking in a park in New Orleans a few days ago, I suddenly got the urge to drop a couple of bucks on what I thought would be a mildly amusing little black magic hoodoo voodoo palm reading.
- These aren't tied to a clear religious structure - they are more like hoodoo, perhaps?
- This is more about hoodoo/voodoo and other forms of black magic.
- There's a tradition in hoodoo called ‘the sewn-up pocket’ which is where you sew up various items (roots, herbs, found objects) into the pocket of an item of clothing.
- Much of Reed's work touches, to one degree or another, on hoodoo.
- There is a short feature on the difference between voodoo and hoodoo, which illuminates how one is an organized religion, and the other is a ritualistic practice of magic.
- It features stories with musicians, soldiers, vampires, hoodoo men and women, and just plain folks.
- This sort of thing is not too far removed from hoodoo & rootwork, which is one of the most effective systems of sorcery I've encountered.
- My magic primarily involves relationships with deity and practical hoodoo (pins in dolls, roots and herbs, found objects, candle burning, etc…).
- In her book, Hurston tells how hoodoo practitioners in New Orleans introduced her to the diversity and intensity of diasporic energies.
- I feel more than a little awkward using hoodoo stuff, to be honest, given the vast gulf between my own advantages and the bitterly oppressed state of its originators.
- Under the auspices of the fellowship, Hurston was to travel to Florida and New Orleans to begin her research on African American folk tales and to scout out hoodoo practice.
- There's a long history in hoodoo of visiting graves of prominent people, leaving a gift or payment, and asking for their aid.
- Yeah - there's a definite difference between voodoo and hoodoo.
- To understand hoodoo curses and cures, she had to undergo harrowing initiation rituals, which she described in ‘Mules and Men’.
- But oh lord, Caroline quickly links a locked attic room with resident ghosts Papa Justify and Mama Cecile, and is quickly earmarked as a tasty sacrifice in one of the more antisocial hoodoo spells.
- But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic.
- I don't have much time to get too many ingredients together, so ideas for simple rituals/charms/hoodoo/candle burning things would be greatly appreciated.
- If anybody out there does hoodoo work or a related practice, then I'd be very interested in swapping notes.
- She's told that as long as she doesn't believe in hoodoo, it can't affect her.
Synonyms witchcraft, magic, black magic, sorcery, wizardry, devilry, voodoo, necromancy North American mojo New Zealand makutu South African muti rare witchery, demonry, thaumaturgy, theurgy - 1.1count noun A run of bad luck associated with a person or activity.
when is this hoodoo going to end? Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, the visitors looked anything but a side haunted by a hoodoo as they set about their task with relish.
- They will also need to overcome a minor hoodoo - it will be the fourth time they have hosted a live Sky match, but so far they have yet to win one.
- Manager Terry Dolan is refusing to rest on his laurels after York City's 2-1 win at Leyton Orient boosted the team's survival hopes and ended a season-long hoodoo.
- The Bulls haven't beaten Saints in the cup since a second-round clash in 1980 and they never looked like breaking that hoodoo yesterday.
- Indeed the win broke some United hoodoos - for instance in six attempts they had failed to beat Lurgan Celtic; they had never won under floodlights; and they had never before reached the Mid-Ulster Shield final.
- It results in the first Laois/Kildare final since 1946 when Laois won their last title and broke a Dublin hoodoo that had lasted for 22 years (and much longer in Croke Park).
- But now the hoodoo that has blighted City all season has hit again.
- For those who believe in omens, York also had to contend with a hoodoo which hadn't allowed them to win there for years.
- Murphy knows he might need some divine intervention to end the hoodoo that has seen Leigh lose both their two previous Grand Finals as well as falling five times in six meetings with Salford this season.
- It has taken six long months for Inverness to rid themselves of a home hoodoo but they finally did it yesterday and, in doing so, plunged Dunfermline even deeper into the relegation mire.
- Chelsea can open up an eight-point lead over Arsenal - but first they must break a nine-year hoodoo.
- 1.2count noun A person or thing that brings or causes bad luck.
Example sentencesExamples - He was a hoodoo to us last summer.
- I have proved a hoodoo to more than one champion.
2North American A column or pinnacle of weathered rock. a towering sandstone hoodoo Example sentencesExamples - While the 4,000 acres of high desert and hoodoos are hospitable to visitors in the fall and winter (the area is beloved by paleontologists), spring and summer can be downright nasty.
- The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees.
- Ride and hike through mazes of magical hoodoos and pink twisted cliffs!
- No vehicles are permitted here and there are no visitor services, so if you go, bring water and supplies, and plan to walk a mile and a half to the hoodoos.
- The Paiute Indians thought that these hoodoos were humanlike creatures turned to stone by an angry coyote god.
Synonyms peak, needle, crag, tor, summit, top, mountaintop, crest, apex, tip, vertex
verbhoodooed, hoodoos, hoodooingˈhuːduːˈhuˌdu [with object]1Bewitch. Example sentencesExamples - He has been called upon to set aside a will because it is claimed the testator was hoodooed, and as a result changed his will.
- If you go somewhere and think you will be hoodooed, always carry a piece of bread in your pocket.
- The person to be hoodooed is generally made aware that the hoodoo is 'set' for him, and the terror created in his mind by this knowledge is generally sufficient to cause him to fall sick.
Synonyms cast a spell on, put a spell on, enchant - 1.1 Bring bad luck to.
a fine player, but repeatedly hoodooed
Origin Late 19th century (originally US): apparently an alteration of voodoo. It originally denoted a person who practised voodoo, hence a hidden cause of bad luck (sense 1 of the noun). sense 2 of the noun is apparently due to the resemblance of the rock column to a strange human form, often topped by an overhanging ‘hat’ of harder rock. Definition of hoodoo in US English: hoodoonounˈhuˌduˈho͞oˌdo͞o 1Voodoo or witchcraft. Example sentencesExamples - There's a long history in hoodoo of visiting graves of prominent people, leaving a gift or payment, and asking for their aid.
- My magic primarily involves relationships with deity and practical hoodoo (pins in dolls, roots and herbs, found objects, candle burning, etc…).
- In her book, Hurston tells how hoodoo practitioners in New Orleans introduced her to the diversity and intensity of diasporic energies.
- But oh lord, Caroline quickly links a locked attic room with resident ghosts Papa Justify and Mama Cecile, and is quickly earmarked as a tasty sacrifice in one of the more antisocial hoodoo spells.
- She's told that as long as she doesn't believe in hoodoo, it can't affect her.
- To understand hoodoo curses and cures, she had to undergo harrowing initiation rituals, which she described in ‘Mules and Men’.
- This sort of thing is not too far removed from hoodoo & rootwork, which is one of the most effective systems of sorcery I've encountered.
- This is more about hoodoo/voodoo and other forms of black magic.
- It features stories with musicians, soldiers, vampires, hoodoo men and women, and just plain folks.
- These aren't tied to a clear religious structure - they are more like hoodoo, perhaps?
- But curiosity gets the best of her, and Caroline opens the door to find a wealth of materials representing the old house's history of hoodoo, an ancient form of folk magic.
- There is a short feature on the difference between voodoo and hoodoo, which illuminates how one is an organized religion, and the other is a ritualistic practice of magic.
- I don't have much time to get too many ingredients together, so ideas for simple rituals/charms/hoodoo/candle burning things would be greatly appreciated.
- Under the auspices of the fellowship, Hurston was to travel to Florida and New Orleans to begin her research on African American folk tales and to scout out hoodoo practice.
- Yeah - there's a definite difference between voodoo and hoodoo.
- Much of Reed's work touches, to one degree or another, on hoodoo.
- There's a tradition in hoodoo called ‘the sewn-up pocket’ which is where you sew up various items (roots, herbs, found objects) into the pocket of an item of clothing.
- If anybody out there does hoodoo work or a related practice, then I'd be very interested in swapping notes.
- I feel more than a little awkward using hoodoo stuff, to be honest, given the vast gulf between my own advantages and the bitterly oppressed state of its originators.
- But while walking in a park in New Orleans a few days ago, I suddenly got the urge to drop a couple of bucks on what I thought would be a mildly amusing little black magic hoodoo voodoo palm reading.
Synonyms witchcraft, magic, black magic, sorcery, wizardry, devilry, voodoo, necromancy - 1.1 A run of bad luck associated with a person or activity.
when is this hoodoo going to end? Example sentencesExamples - Murphy knows he might need some divine intervention to end the hoodoo that has seen Leigh lose both their two previous Grand Finals as well as falling five times in six meetings with Salford this season.
- The Bulls haven't beaten Saints in the cup since a second-round clash in 1980 and they never looked like breaking that hoodoo yesterday.
- But now the hoodoo that has blighted City all season has hit again.
- For those who believe in omens, York also had to contend with a hoodoo which hadn't allowed them to win there for years.
- It results in the first Laois/Kildare final since 1946 when Laois won their last title and broke a Dublin hoodoo that had lasted for 22 years (and much longer in Croke Park).
- It has taken six long months for Inverness to rid themselves of a home hoodoo but they finally did it yesterday and, in doing so, plunged Dunfermline even deeper into the relegation mire.
- Indeed, the visitors looked anything but a side haunted by a hoodoo as they set about their task with relish.
- Indeed the win broke some United hoodoos - for instance in six attempts they had failed to beat Lurgan Celtic; they had never won under floodlights; and they had never before reached the Mid-Ulster Shield final.
- Chelsea can open up an eight-point lead over Arsenal - but first they must break a nine-year hoodoo.
- Manager Terry Dolan is refusing to rest on his laurels after York City's 2-1 win at Leyton Orient boosted the team's survival hopes and ended a season-long hoodoo.
- They will also need to overcome a minor hoodoo - it will be the fourth time they have hosted a live Sky match, but so far they have yet to win one.
- 1.2 A person or thing that brings or causes bad luck.
Example sentencesExamples - He was a hoodoo to us last summer.
- I have proved a hoodoo to more than one champion.
2North American A column or pinnacle of weathered rock. a towering sandstone hoodoo Example sentencesExamples - Ride and hike through mazes of magical hoodoos and pink twisted cliffs!
- No vehicles are permitted here and there are no visitor services, so if you go, bring water and supplies, and plan to walk a mile and a half to the hoodoos.
- The badlands are significant due to the plethora of fossils and dinosaur bones that have been recovered in the slowly eroding hoodoos, narrow valleys and bone-dry coulees.
- The Paiute Indians thought that these hoodoos were humanlike creatures turned to stone by an angry coyote god.
- While the 4,000 acres of high desert and hoodoos are hospitable to visitors in the fall and winter (the area is beloved by paleontologists), spring and summer can be downright nasty.
Synonyms peak, needle, crag, tor, summit, top, mountaintop, crest, apex, tip, vertex
verbˈhuˌduˈho͞oˌdo͞o [with object]1Bewitch. Example sentencesExamples - If you go somewhere and think you will be hoodooed, always carry a piece of bread in your pocket.
- He has been called upon to set aside a will because it is claimed the testator was hoodooed, and as a result changed his will.
- The person to be hoodooed is generally made aware that the hoodoo is 'set' for him, and the terror created in his mind by this knowledge is generally sufficient to cause him to fall sick.
Synonyms cast a spell on, put a spell on, enchant - 1.1 Bring bad luck to.
a fine player, but repeatedly hoodooed
Origin Late 19th century (originally US): apparently an alteration of voodoo. It originally denoted a person who practiced voodoo, hence a hidden cause of bad luck ( hoodoo (sense 1 of the noun)). hoodoo (sense 2 of the noun) is apparently due to the resemblance of the rock column to a strange human form, often topped by an overhanging ‘hat’ of harder rock. |