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Answer for the clue "Something believed to bring bad luck ", 6 letters:
hoodoo

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Word definitions for hoodoo in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoodoo \Hoo"doo\, v. t. To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch. [Colloq., U. S.]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
African American Hoodoo (also known as "conjure", "rootworking", "root doctoring", or "working the root") is a traditional African American folk spirituality that developed from a number of West African spiritual traditions and beliefs.

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 .