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Definition of Hoodooing
1. hoodoo [v] - See also: hoodoo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoodooing
Literary usage of Hoodooing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Children of the Slaves by Stephen Graham (1920)
"... everything away from them and falling forward, and yet never falling, blowing
out their cheeks and dilating their eyes, and, as it were, hoodooing and ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"The e^s about " hoodooing " were not strictly delusions, but e result of mental
weakness. In an ordinary negro these v°*-ild have been without significance, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1885)
"The ideas about " hoodooing " were not strictly delusions, but the result of
mental weakness. In an ordinary negro these would have been without ..."
4. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions by Thorstein Veblen (1912)
"... il "hoodooing" of the contestants or the apparatus engaged in any contest on
which they lay a wager; or who feel that the fact of their backing a given ..."
5. A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience by Harry Alverson Franck (1911)
"And those have n't got knives in their ribs for hoodooing the children are ed
upon as insane or degenerate, or as men being punished for crime. ..."
6. The History of Mecklenburg County: From 1740 to 1900 by John Brevard Alexander (1902)
"During the time of African slavery in the United States, there was 700000 converted
to Christianity from "hoodooing" cannibals. Greater progress was made ..."
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