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Hoodoo

verb

Bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune.

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"Hoodoo" Quotes from Famous Books

... and that the wise thing to do was to provide for them while in the region of timber; so we stopped, cut jack-oak, made it into lengths and stored them in the wagon until time and place were more opportune for wheel-wrighting. This broken wheel proved to be a hoodoo, as will appear at intervals during the story of ...

— In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 • Gilbert L. Cole

... need to wear it so that I will be reminded of something—something important as a hoodoo," she said, with a strange, ...

— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan

... on his buckskin from the Hoodoo Peak country, where for private reasons of his own he had been for the past month a sojourner, reported that he had seen the prettiest sight in the State climbing under a gasoline bronc with a monkey-wrench ...

— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine

... best summer ranges for Elk is near the southeast corner of the Yellowstone Lake, and here it was my luck to have the curious experience that I call the "Story of a Hoodoo Elk." ...

— Wild Animals at Home • Ernest Thompson Seton

Words linked to "Hoodoo" : charm, be, geology, juju, non-Christian priest, voodooism, column, vodoun, pillar, object, priest, tower, hoodooism, fetich, physical object, good luck charm