hoodoo

You suspect even the watching Ant and Dec did not necessarily envisage that hoodoo ending on Saturday.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

James Slipper scored a try in his 200th Super Rugby match as the ACT Brumbies broke a 26-year hoodoo on Sunday with a 50-24 hammering of the Canterbury Crusaders.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

Researching Annie, I had to look back at where I’m from, because she’s a hoodoo priestess and hoodoo is a derivative of Ifa, and Ifa is the traditional Yoruba religion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

The Bulls have lost a second URC final in succession, having fallen to Glasgow last year, but it was Leinster's day as they got over their final hoodoo.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025

So feel I. Living in the Congo shakes open the prison house of my disposition and lets all the wicked hoodoo Adahs run forth.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

In Norwegian folklore they stand as the nation's great hoodoos, the unexplained phenomena that put the heart sideways in those who have encountered them.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2023

By the time we made it to Black Canyon of the Gunnison, we were pretty excited to see something other than the hoodoos and arches that we were starting to take for granted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

The bus crashed a few miles from Bryce Canyon National Park, which is known for its intricately shaped red-rock spires called hoodoos.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021

Many state parks also have attractions that rival their more famous neighbors, such as Goblin Valley State Park, in Utah, where the multicolored alien-like hoodoos rival those of nearby Canyonlands.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2021

The laughing acquiescence of the present in hoodoos, mascots and lucky objects cannot be traced back to the credulity of any one individual.

From The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance by Roy Wood Sellars

“He got hoodooed by this guy. He’s worth $16 billion. He’s obviously hoodooed a few people here and there. He took our governor for a ride,” Harpootlian said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

His explanation: he was being hoodooed by a radio announcer.

From Time Magazine Archive

"There was a hoodooed schooner sailed out o' Salem some years back, the Marlin B. She had the same tug to sta'bo'd that I feel when I'm steerin' of this here schooner."

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen

"You lissen at me: if that's the fact, I'm tellin' you-all that every wheel on this blame', hoodooed railroad is goin' to stop turnin' at twelve o'clock on the night before that notice takes hold."

From The Grafters by Francis Lynde

Sister Thompson tell these ladies about bein hoodooed.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by Work Projects Administration

Do you realize what a start like this—three twos—would mean to a professional like Frank or even an amateur that hadn't offended every busy little fate and fury in the whole hoodooing business?

From Murder in Any Degree by Owen Johnson

"I won't be any longer than I can help, and don't you go to hoodooing me, now, while I'm upstairs."

From Jewel by Clara Louise Burnham