What's the difference between hoodoo and witch?

Hoodoo


Definition:

  • (n.) One who causes bad luck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Murray found new reserves of strength to take the fifth and lay a 76-year hoodoo to rest.
  • (2) Keep your bearings – the visitor centre is easy to spot from any vantage – and let yourself get lost between the hoodoos.
  • (3) North End, aiming to end an eight-game play-off hoodoo, had been poor, but Garner ensured they will head to South Yorkshire next Thursday on level terms.
  • (4) Here thousands of mushroom-shaped hoodoos sit clustered in a secluded valley on the edge of the spectacular San Rafael Swell.
  • (5) The white cliffs, hoodoos and slot canyon are all made of of volcanic tuff that erupted around a million years ago.
  • (6) Yet a lot of teams have buried a hoodoo at Old Trafford over the last couple of seasons.
  • (7) 7.44pm GMT Kick off coming up soon... Can SKC break their Houston hoodoo?
  • (8) Andy Murray has capped a year in which he broke a 77-year Wimbledon hoodoo and played his way into the hearts of the nation by winning the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award.
  • (9) The first half of the three-mile trail winds through a slot canyon so narrow you can touch the walls on both sides, then the canyon opens up beneath the 100ft conical hoodoos that give this national monument its name, before switchbacking up to the top of the mesa for a sweeping overlook of the Jemez mountains and the Rio Grande River Valley.
  • (10) It's now a hoodoo, voodoo, ghost, curse, rally monkey, wear-your-cap-inside-out situation 9.31pm BST Giants 6, Reds 3 Top 9th Xavier Nady in to pinch hit for the Giants.
  • (11) Paul Lambert brought up an unwanted half-century in charge of Aston Villa as Hull City overcame their own hoodoo against their relegation rivals to plunge them into the bottom three .
  • (12) Don't get me wrong, Rodgers is one of the best QB's around and has a bit of a hoodoo over Da Bears, but it's forecast to be a cold and windy evening in Chicago that will probably suit the running game best.
  • (13) Ukraine’s hopes of finally ending their play-off hoodoo and qualifying for Euro 2016 were given a huge boost with a 2-0 first-leg victory over Slovenia in Lviv.
  • (14) The images, which are deeply layered and particular to a black Southern vernacular and aesthetic, beg to be catalogued: Creole and Black American, Mardi Gras Indian, crawfish, Black cowboys, wig shops, socks and slippers, corsets and parasols, parades, high school basketball, step team moves, bounce queens Big Freedia and Messy Mya, cotillions, “twirl on dem haters”, braids, “bama”, black spirituality (church and hoodoo, maybe even a nod to Mami Wata), black mama side eyes, drawls, Blue Ivy black girl magic fierceness.
  • (15) Seasoned hikers can head to the Valley of the 1,000 Devils , with its hoodoo rock formations and dinosaur fossils.

Witch


Definition:

  • (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
  • (n.) The stormy petrel.
  • (v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
  • (2) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
  • (3) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
  • (4) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
  • (5) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
  • (6) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
  • (7) A couple have been jailed for life for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.
  • (8) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
  • (9) On Christmas Day 2010, Kristy's killer spoke to the boy's father, Pierre, accusing the 15-year-old of being a witch and threatening to kill him.
  • (10) Social unrest has become more and more likely, leading to an increasingly bold witch-hunt by the government against opposition voices .
  • (11) Lee denied the charges, saying he had never heard of the Revolutionary Organisation and denouncing the trial as a politically motivated witch-hunt by intelligence officials.
  • (12) The government has launched a separate royal commission into alleged union corruption, which unions have argued is a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
  • (13) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
  • (14) I could be the most beautiful drag queen in the world and the most evil witch of a person.
  • (15) Human rights campaigners have called on South Korea’s military to end its “witch-hunt” against gay servicemen, after an investigation into dozens of men prompted debate among presidential candidates over the country’s poor record on LGBT rights.
  • (16) "If we don't push home the idea that calling a child a witch will have grave consequences, then we will continue to have these kind of cases," said Ariyo.
  • (17) At one point, Evans was accused of bullying staff 20 years ago – a claim he said was ridiculous and the result of a witch-hunt.
  • (18) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (19) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
  • (20) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.

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