How To Use Hoodoo In A Sentence

  • At a place by the river where the current is bad (there are many such places, and, in fact, the whole of the Snake River is a perfect hoodoo) A Touch of Sun and Other Stories
  • Surprise Lake was a hoodoo; its location was unremembered; and the gold still paved its undrained bottom. THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You said Tom and Jerry were hoodooed," said Andy and Hortense together. The Cat in Grandfather's House
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  • They failed to deliver a shot on target until the last minute as their home hoodoo continued. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ride and hike through mazes of magical hoodoos and pink twisted cliffs!
  • Porcupine Jim declared that the place was "hoodooed" and as evidence enumerated the many accidents and delays. The Man from the Bitter Roots
  • The name hoodoo comes from the word voodoo and was given to these geological formations by the Europeans," notes a sign on one of the trails. Canada.com Top Stories
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • This would have been the case if, as you suppose, the hoodoo were a myth begotten of a series of fortuitous events. The Hoodoo of the Minnietta
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wind- and drought-gnarled Torrey pines do a pas de deux with sandstone formations whose knife-edge ridges, deep furrows, and occasional hoodoo-like capstones create a mini Bryce Canyon at the beach.
  • Keith said at the time that he was "hoodooed" into believing that the senator's wife was suffering from a medical condition. Undefined
  • Instead, she gets a pomegranate tree, a sack of hoodooed horehound candies, and a strange visitor—a boy who offers her a silver coin from his mouth and asks for directions to Elisia. 12/17/2006 - 12/24/2006
  • In these culturally sensitive times, the film is quick to point out that Hoodoo is not Voodoo, a West African religion practised by millions.
  • Brad, having been hoodooed, like many of us, by the romance and magic of New Orleans, over time had remained attached to the fortunes of the city, so that when Katrina struck, he was deeply concerned, and could only grow more heart-broken and frustrated as he saw how desperate the plight of New Orleanians had become and continued to be as the folly and incompetence of government responses on all levels heightened. The Voice of the Wetlands Festival, Part 5: Brad Pitt and the Color Pink
  • 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.
  • Joe is, of course, best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo.
  • So, when Superman commanded everyone to resist hypnotic suggestions, he unwittingly undid his own hypnotic hoodoo, which is why Lana didn't see Superman as Clark, even when wearing Clark's get-up. Archive 2004-02-29
  • I know people on the outside think we've all been hoodooed, '' says one Lyons supporter. A Preacher On Trial
  • Indeed, the visitors looked anything but a side haunted by a hoodoo as they set about their task with relish.
  • 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.
  • 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's a Hoodoo tale, which means it features the peculiar magical practices that combine voodoo with Louisiana black arts culled from Tahiti, Native American, and slave superstition.
  • 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.
  • My magic primarily involves relationships with deity and practical hoodoo (pins in dolls, roots and herbs, found objects, candle burning, etc…).
  • 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.
  • How Lucas responds could go a long way towards determining if Liverpool finally break that title hoodoo, especially since Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Chelsea can open up an eight-point lead over Arsenal - but first they must break a nine-year hoodoo.
  • It features stories with musicians, soldiers, vampires, hoodoo men and women, and just plain folks.
  • Yeah - there's a definite difference between voodoo and hoodoo.
  • Enraged, she ripped the tights to shreds, convinced that they had hoodooed her husband. The Secret Life of Houdini
  • To understand hoodoo curses and cures, she had to undergo harrowing initiation rituals, which she described in ‘Mules and Men’.
  • While I have always been aware of hoodoo in the blues, via references to ‘mojos’, ‘black cat bones’ etc., I didn't realize just how many more obscure allusions existed within the genre.
  • 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.
  • HOODOO A variation of the word voodoo used commonly in the southern United States. The Serpent and the Rainbow
  • 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.
  • LOL A hoodoo is a swamp critter thatll eatcha up especially at night in the deep dark swamp!! An 18-Year Bear Hunt
  • 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.
  • Much of Reed's work touches, to one degree or another, on hoodoo.
  • But now the hoodoo that has blighted City all season has hit again.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • These aren't tied to a clear religious structure - they are more like hoodoo, perhaps?
  • If you go somewhere and think you will be hoodooed, always carry a piece of bread in your pocket.
  • They say it has what you Americans call a hoodoo on it. Chapter 8
  • This is more about hoodoo/voodoo and other forms of black magic.
  • There's a long history in hoodoo of visiting graves of prominent people, leaving a gift or payment, and asking for their aid.
  • For those who believe in omens, York also had to contend with a hoodoo which hadn't allowed them to win there for years.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • They failed to deliver a shot on target until the last minute as their home hoodoo continued. Times, Sunday Times
  • a tall sandstone hoodoo
  • 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.
  • If anybody out there does hoodoo work or a related practice, then I'd be very interested in swapping notes.
  • 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.
  • I was previously commenting that I d like us to score another and break the 2 goal hoodoo.
  • The Paiute Indians thought that these hoodoos were humanlike creatures turned to stone by an angry coyote god.
  • In her book, Hurston tells how hoodoo practitioners in New Orleans introduced her to the diversity and intensity of diasporic energies.
  • 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.

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