Crossword clues for hoodoo
hoodoo
- Curse rings that gangster's put on
- Rings put on violent criminal bringing bad luck
- Bad luck loves to follow gangster
- Jinx over and over dogging criminal
- Jinx violent criminal over nothing
- Bryce Canyon formation
- Something thought to bring bad luck
- Fetish — charm with magical powers
- Bad-luck charm
- Bad luck, and a hint to the four longest across answers
- African American folk magic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoodoo \Hoo"doo\ (h[=oo]"d[=oo]), n. [Perh. a var. of voodoo.]
One who causes bad luck. [Colloq.]
Same as voodoo.
Bad luck.
Hoodoo \Hoo"doo\, v. t. To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch. [Colloq., U. S.]
Hoodoo \Hoo"doo\, n. A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape. [Western U. S.] ``I watched for hours as the shadows moved through the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon park.''
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.
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 or misfortune to.
WordNet
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.
A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, and earth pyramid) is a tall, thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of an arid drainage basin or badland. Hoodoos, which may range from , typically consist of relatively soft rock topped by harder, less easily eroded stone that protects each column from the elements. They generally form within sedimentary rock and volcanic rock formations.
Hoodoos are found mainly in the desert in dry, hot areas. In common usage, the difference between hoodoos and pinnacles (or spires) is that hoodoos have a variable thickness often described as having a " totem pole-shaped body". A spire, on the other hand, has a smoother profile or uniform thickness that tapers from the ground upward. An example of a single spire, as an earth pyramid, is found at Aultderg Burn, near Fochabers, Scotland.
Hoodoos range in size from the height of an average human to heights exceeding a 10-story building. Hoodoo shapes are affected by the erosional patterns of alternating hard and softer rock layers. Minerals deposited within different rock types cause hoodoos to have different colors throughout their height.
Hoodoo is a ski resort in the northwest United States, in the central Cascade Range of Oregon. Located near the summit of Santiam Pass on U.S. Route 20, the ski area operates on federal land through agreement with Willamette National Forest on Hoodoo Butte, a volcanic cinder cone. Hoodoo's slopes primarily face northeast.
Hoodoo is the third solo album by singer/songwriter Alison Moyet.
The album includes singles " It Won't Be Long", "Wishing You Were Here", "This House" and "Hoodoo". "This House" was the biggest hit of the four, charting at No. 40 in the UK singles chart.
Moyet's record company wanted the pop hits to continue to flow but this left the singer feeling artistically compromised and under pressure to deliver. This is reflected in the sombre and melancholy Hoodoo which received little support or promotion from Sony, although lead single "It Wont Be Long" secured her a Grammy nomination for best song in 1991.
The album includes contributions from Kirsty MacColl, Steve Lillywhite, Marius De Vries, ex- Fine Young Cannibals Andy Cox and David Steele, and " This House" was originally recorded as a duet with Vince Clarke/ Erasure – this version however never surfaced since Sony Music, for reasons unknown, wouldn't allow it to be released.
Hoodoo may refer to:
Hoodoo is an unreleased studio album by John Fogerty. It was recorded in the late spring of 1976 and originally intended to be his third solo album.
Hoodoo is the 16th album by the Swiss hard rock/ heavy metal band Krokus. It includes a cover of the Steppenwolf song " Born to be Wild". The album failed to reach the Billboard Top 200 in the U.S., unlike their last album ( Hellraiser), but the release was successful overseas. The song "Hoodoo Woman" is featured on the soundtrack of the movie Saw 3D.
The album has received mixed to positive reviews from publications such as About.com and Allmusic. Critic Chad Bower of About.com labeled the release as being "packed with big hooks arena ready anthems". Critic Alexey Eremenko praised the album for Allmusic as having the band "rocking as hard as ever", with "dirty, swaggering" hard rock songs.
Hoodoo was certified Platinum in Switzerland.
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 .