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- noun US, dialect
hoodoo
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Examples
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Their shops fell on hard times in the 1970s, in part because many African-Americans began to view hoodoo, also known as rootwork or conjure, as backward, say scholars who study the practice.
Need a Job? Losing Your House? Who Says Hoodoo Can't Help? Cameron McWhirter 2010
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Some African-Americans still practice rootwork, and many Native American peoples have maintained traditional healing methods.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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Below them the beaches had been consumed by a tangle of thick, thorny rootwork.
Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999
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Then the smell of damp earth and clinging roots caught at him unexpectedly; memory upon memory sent shoots and hair roots spreading through him of land-law until for one split second he no longer felt his body, and his mind branched dizzyingly through the rootwork of Hed.
Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979
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But the voices of the backlands seemed even older, a rootwork of winds that held nothing he could comprehend except their emptiness.
Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979
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Dr. Christos Kioni, a Florida-based hoodoo doctor and high priest, or Tata Nganga, in the Afro-Cuban religion Palo, is world-renowned for his successful love and reconciliation work using Palo magic and hoodoo rootwork.
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Dr. Christos Kioni, a Florida-based hoodoo doctor and high priest, or Tata Nganga, in the Afro-Cuban religion Palo, is world-renowned for his successful love and reconciliation work using Palo magic and hoodoo rootwork.
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Dr. Christos Kioni, a Florida-based hoodoo doctor and high priest, or Tata Nganga, in the Afro-Cuban religion Palo, is world-renowned for his successful love and reconciliation work using Palo magic and hoodoo rootwork.
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Dr. Christos Kioni, a Florida-based hoodoo doctor and high priest, or Tata Nganga, in the Afro-Cuban religion Palo, is world-renowned for his successful love and reconciliation work using Palo magic and hoodoo rootwork.
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It's a system rootwork, a folk belief in magic and it's all over the blues.
Expecting Rain 2009
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