"hoodoo" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a noun meaning a kind of magical practice, or to refer to something as a charm or an omen of bad luck, or as a verb to mean casting a spell or practicing magic. Example sentence: The hoodoo she performed on her former enemy seemed to work, as their consequences began to backfire.
The clubs may have been separated by 24 points in the league – United finishing third and St Mirren seventh – but tiredness and a perceived Hampden hoodoo were weighing down heavily on McLean's men.
Kilmarnock will regard that as irrelevant; they earned an opportunity to break a League Cup final hoodoo thanks to Dean Shiels's extra-time winner.
However, having lost just one of their past 21 League One games, they can be cautiously optimistic that the hoodoo could finally be banished at the 10th time of asking, particularly with a strikeforce of Beckford and Garner in their arsenal.
Suffice to say Hibs have been a lot more confident of ending their Scottish Cup hoodoo at various spells over the past 109 years than they are just now.
The vice-president flatly denies wrongdoing and says he had no improper involvement with the firm.In this section Tracing the missing The gods that failed Welcome to Italordan Boudou hoodoo ReprintsJournalists and opposition politicians have raised questions about Mr Boudou's association with Ciccone since early 2012.
They then drove bulldozers through their houses, and mortared or set fire to them.In this section Tracing the missing The gods that failed Welcome to Italordan Boudou hoodoo ReprintsUntil this year the barbarity went virtually unreported; there were only dark rumours of what had happened to those who had gone missing.
Traylor may have had a deep knowledge of the African American conjure (or hoodoo) tradition folk magic with roots in Africa and elements found in his drawings may have been included as symbols to be understood by other African Americans who were familiar with the tradition.
The hoodoo had not been broken but he would go home happy.
Everton were Sunderland's great hoodoo team and very few making the journey to Merseyside would have contemplated a win against a side that had not lost at Goodison Park for 363 days.
And with Spurs now seemingly finding their rhythm under new boss Andre Villas-Boas, the Belgian is hopeful about his team's chances of putting their Old Trafford hoodoo to bed.
Kevin Phillips grabbed the golden goal to fire Crystal Palace into the Barclays Premier League and end his play-off final hoodoo.
