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(uncountable) A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
The three men wondered whether they would find Colson at Taylor's Creek. They felt that a hoodoo hung over the place.
(geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 71:
It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.
