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"Has you got dat hoodoo, little Mas'?" he demanded of me as I passed into the hall beneath the candle in a tall stand of silver which he held high over my head. "Yes, good Cato," I made answer to him and I was indeed glad that I had now of a habit put his gift under the heel of my left foot. It gave me great courage. "De Governor is up in his room and you kin go right up.
"But what I mean by a hoodoo is that something always seems to happen when we start out anywhere. We've been on the jump, you might say, ever since we lost our places on the farms and got into this moving picture business." "That's so. And the latest is being taken for dynamiters." "Yes.
Some of these have passed into the slang of the day, "73" being well known as a telegrapher's expression of compliments or good wishes, while "23" is an accident or death message, and has been given broader popular significance as a general synonym for "hoodoo."
You'll be their man to hoodoo the other ball clubs." "Yessah!" "You can't say nothing nohow, so all you've got to do is to see me face the music." "Yessah!" "There's the house now. They say he thought a powerful lot of her. Is there a saloon anywhere near?" The twain look in vain for a beer sign, and resume their journey. They ascend the steps. "There ain't no yawl up here!
He knew when Allan was care-free, and satisfied with the team, or was discouraged by some unexpected act of stupidity or disobedience, though no syllable was spoken. Not long before the Big Race, several unfortunate things happened in the Kennel to make Allan believe it was, as the "Wonder Workers" solemnly declared it, a "Hoodoo" year for the dogs.
"I am going to take a chance on exploding that one mine that seems to be our hoodoo," shouted Lieutenant McClure. Jack waited anxiously to see just what his lieutenant was doing.
MR. W. C. BRANN: In your editorial on the "Henry George Hoodoo," which appears in the August number of the ICONOCLAST, the following passage occurs: "It seems to me that I have treated the Single Taxers as fairly as they could ask, and if I now proceed to state a few plain truths about them and their faith they will have no just cause to complain."
The most widely prevalent are beliefs concerning haunted houses, weather signs, bad luck and good luck signs, charm curse and cures and hoodoo signs. Their beliefs that the date of the planting of vegetables should be determined by the phases of the moon is unshaken.
"I guess if I ain't got nothing more the matter with me than Bananas' hoodoo I shall be sitting up and taking nourishment in a very few days." She was silent for a while and she looked at him intently. "Don't you know you're dying?" she said to him at last. That was what the two skippers had thought, but they hadn't said it. A shiver passed across the captain's wan face.
They are very superstitious, and to admit visitors on Monday would 'hoodoo' the business for the rest of the week. None of the houses were attractive. We learned the name of only one, which, the girls tell me, is the worst in the whole district. "There is one place, though, that I must mention. It is most attractive with lights, mirrors, and music.
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