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Hoodoo vs. Witch — What's the Difference?

Hoodoo vs. Witch — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hoodoo and Witch

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Hoodoo

Voodoo or witchcraft
A visit to a local hoodoo doctor

Witch

A person, especially a woman, claiming or popularly believed to possess magical powers and practice sorcery.

Hoodoo

A column or pinnacle of weathered rock
A towering sandstone hoodoo

Witch

A believer or follower of Wicca; a Wiccan.

Hoodoo

Bewitch
She's hoodooed you
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Witch

(Offensive) An old woman considered to be ugly or frightening.

Hoodoo

Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean.Also called conjure.

Witch

A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.

Hoodoo

A practitioner of hoodoo.

Witch

(Informal) A woman or girl considered to be charming or fascinating.

Hoodoo

Voodoo.

Witch

One particularly skilled or competent at one's craft
"A witch of a writer, [she] is capable of developing an intensity that verges on ferocity" (Peter S. Prescott).

Hoodoo

Bad luck.

Witch

To work or cast a spell on; bewitch.

Hoodoo

One that brings bad luck.

Witch

To cause, bring, or effect by witchcraft.

Hoodoo

(Geology)A column of eccentrically shaped rock, produced by differential weathering.

Witch

To use a divining rod to find underground water or minerals; dowse.

Hoodoo

To practice hoodoo on; affect with a charm or curse.

Witch

A person who practices witchcraft.

Hoodoo

To bring bad luck to.

Witch

(now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.

Hoodoo

(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.

Witch

An ugly or unpleasant woman.
I hate that old witch.

Hoodoo

A practitioner of voodoo.

Witch

One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.

Hoodoo

Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.

Witch

One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.

Hoodoo

(geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.

Witch

(geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

Hoodoo

(transitive) To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

Witch

The storm petrel.

Hoodoo

One who causes bad luck.

Witch

Any of a number of flatfish:

Hoodoo

Same as voodoo.

Witch

Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.

Hoodoo

Bad luck.

Witch

Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.

Hoodoo

A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.

Witch

Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.

Hoodoo

To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch.

Witch

The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.

Hoodoo

A column of weathered and eccentrically shaped rock;
A tall sandstone hoodoo

Witch

A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.

Hoodoo

A practitioner of voodoo

Witch

(intransitive) To dowse for water.

Hoodoo

A charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers

Witch

To practise witchcraft.

Hoodoo

Something believed to bring bad luck

Witch

(transitive) To bewitch.

Hoodoo

Bring back luck; be a source of misfortune

Witch

A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.

Witch

One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; - now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
There was a man in that city whose name was Simon, a witch.
He can not abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears she's a witch.

Witch

An ugly old woman; a hag.

Witch

One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; - said especially of a woman or child.

Witch

A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.

Witch

The stormy petrel.

Witch

A Wiccan; an adherent or practitioner of Wicca, a religion which in different forms may be paganistic and nature-oriented, or ditheistic. The term witch applies to both male and female adherents in this sense.

Witch

To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.
[I 'll] witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.
Whether within us or withoutThe spell of this illusion beThat witches us to hear and see.

Witch

A female sorcerer or magician

Witch

A being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil

Witch

An ugly evil-looking old woman

Witch

Cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

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