Hoodoo most commonly refers to:
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Hoodoo (spirituality)
Hoodoo is a set of spiritual practices, traditions, and beliefs created and concealed from slaveholders by enslaved Africans in North America. Hoodoo evolved from various traditional African religions, practices, and in the American South inc ...
, a traditional African American folk spirituality
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Hoodoo (geology)
A hoodoo (also called a tent rock, fairy chimney, or earth pyramid) is a tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion. Hoodoos typically consist of relatively soft rock topped by harder, less easily eroded stone that protects each column from the ...
, a rock formation
It may also refer to:
Places
Canada
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Hoodoo Mountain
Hoodoo Mountain, sometimes referred to as Hoodoo Volcano, is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is located northeast of the Alaska–British Columbia border on the north side of the Is ...
, a stratovolcano in northwestern British Columbia
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Castle Rock Hoodoos Provincial Park
Castle Rock Hoodoos Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward int ...
, near Savona, British Columbia
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Dutch Creek Hoodoos, near Canal Flats, British Columbia
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Rural Municipality of Hoodoo No. 401, Saskatchewan, a rural municipality
United States
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Hoodoo Mountains
The Hoodoo Mountains are a mountain range in the northwest United States, in north central Idaho. They are part of the Clearwater Mountains and are the source of the Potlatch and Palouse rivers. Located in northeastern Latah County and sou ...
in Idaho
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Hoodoo Butte, a volcanic cone in Oregon
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Hoodoo (ski area), a ski resort in Oregon
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Hoodoo Peak, a mountain in Washington state
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Hoodoo Peak (Wyoming)
Hoodoo Peak is a mountain summit located in Park County, Wyoming, United States.
Description
This remote peak is situated along the common border shared by Yellowstone National Park and North Absaroka Wilderness, and it ranks as the 24th-hig ...
, a mountain in Yellowstone National Park
Music
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Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner (songwriter, lead singer and guitarist) and later joined by Richard Grossman (bass), Mark Kingsmill (drums), and Brad Shepherd (guitar, vocals, ha ...
, an Australian rock music group
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''Hoodoo'' (Alison Moyet album), the third solo album by singer-songwriter Alison Moyet, or its title track
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''Hoodoo'' (John Fogerty album), John Fogerty's third solo album, recorded in the late spring of 1976 but never released
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''Hoodoo'' (Krokus album), the 16th album by heavy metal band Krokus
* "Hoodoo", a song by the English rock band Muse from their album ''
Black Holes and Revelations
''Black Holes and Revelations'' is the fourth studio album by English rock band Muse, first released on 3 July 2006 through Warner Bros. Records and Muse's Helium-3 imprint. It was recorded over four months with producer Rich Costey in New Yor ...
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Other uses
*''Hoodoo'', a book by
Ronald L. Smith
Ronald L. Smith is a children's book author. He is the author of ''Hoodoo'' (2015), ''The Mesmerist'' (2017), ''Black Panther: The Young Prince'' (2018), ''The owls have come to take us away'' (2019), and ''Gloom Town'' (2020). For ''Hoodoo'', Smi ...
*''Hoodoo: Unraveling the 100 Year Mystery of the Chicago Cubs'', a book by
Grant DePorter
Grant M. DePorter (born November 7, 1964) is a restaurateur from Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, U.S., who came to prominence in after he paid US$113,824.16 for a baseball which had played a role in the Chicago Cubs defeat in the 2003 National League ...
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Horatio J. HooDoo, a character in the ''Lidsville'' TV series
*Hoodoo McFiggin, a character in the short story "Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas" by
Stephen Leacock
Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known ...
See also
* The
Hoodoo War
The Mason County War, sometimes called the Hoodoo War in reference to masked members of a vigilance committee,Sonnichsen, C.L., 1957, 10 Texas Feuds, University of New Mexico Press, was a period of lawlessness ignited by a "tidal wave of rustling ...
(1875–1876)
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USS Texas (1892)
USS ''Texas'' was a pre-dreadnought battleship built by the United States in the early 1890s. The first American battleship commissioned, she was built in reaction to the acquisition of modern armored warships by several South American countr ...
, a battleship of the United States Navy nicknamed "Old Hoodoo"
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Voodoo (disambiguation)
Voodoo may refer to:
Religions
* African or West African Vodun, practiced by Gbe-speaking ethnic groups
* African diaspora religions, a list of related religions sometimes called Vodou/Voodoo
** Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vod ...
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