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Bringer of bad luck
Answer for the clue "Bringer of bad luck ", 6 letters:
hoodoo
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 African traditional folk magic. 2 (context geology English) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands. 3 Something or someone believed to bring bad luck. vb. (cx transitive English) To jinx; to bring bad luck ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who practices voodoo," 1870, American English, probably an alteration of voodoo . Meaning "something that causes or brings bad luck" is attested from 1880.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a column of weathered and eccentrically shaped rock; "a tall sandstone hoodoo" a practitioner of voodoo a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers [syn: juju , voodoo , fetish , fetich ] something believed to bring bad luck v. bring back ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hoodoo may refer to:
Usage examples of hoodoo.
To them, Robertson was just another Southern-ftled Elmer Gantry bigot with a slick line of LordyJesus hoodoo who could hypnotize a couple of million American goobers into turning over their bank accounts to the savvy Scots.
Meanwhile, in Kewanee Springs, with its legend of the Seminole devil, The Shadow might find some new clue to the strange hoodoo that had turned Pomelo City into a forgotten city of ghosts!
Probably had a hoodoo her, made her stab Jocko that way in a places, broke the fuckin knife on his.
To them, Robertson was just another Southern-ftled Elmer Gantry bigot with a slick line of LordyJesus hoodoo who could hypnotize a couple of million American goobers into turning over their bank accounts to the savvy Scots.
His own assailant was cursing him and pushing up now from the sand, and as Joe spun around to deal with the threat, he was full of the meanness and fury that had gotten him thrown out of the youth-boxing league twenty years ago, seething with church-vandalizing rage - he was an animal now, a heartless predator, cat-quick and savage - and he reacted as though this stranger were personally responsible for poor Frank being crippled with rheumatoid arthritis, as if this sonofabitch had worked some hoodoo to make Frank's joints swell and deform, as if this wretched thug were the sole perpetrator who had somehow put a funnel in Captain Blane's ear and poured an elixir of madness into his head, so Joe kicked him in the crotch, and when the guy grunted and began to double over, Joe grabbed the bastard's head and at the same time drove a knee upward, shoving the face down into the knee and jamming the knee up hard into the face, a .