hoodoo

He even suggested it might be cursed — “There is a hoodoo on it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

The Parisians finally broke their Champions League hoodoo in May 2025 with a 5-0 win over Inter Milan - the biggest winning margin in a final.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

Winger Corey Toole is confident the ACT Brumbies have what it takes to snap a 26-year hoodoo against the Canterbury Crusaders in Christchurch, drawing inspiration from their drought-breaking victory in Auckland last year.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 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

I must be the only one free of your hoodoo bad luck.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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 park, known for its crimson-hued hoodoos in southern Utah, will host its annual astronomy festival from Wednesday to Saturday, featuring day and evening events.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 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

They say when nights are grewsome   And hours are, oh! so late,     Old Sam steals out     And hunts about   For charms that hoodoos hate!

From Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field

“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

That schooner is hoodooed, as sure as sure!

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

Her people laughed and told her she was hoodooed; but next day she was robbed of every jewel she had in the world.

From Life on the Stage by Clara Morris

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