hoodooing

And the proportion is not much less of those who instinctively dread the "hoodooing" of the contestants or the apparatus engaged in any contest on which they lay a wager; or who feel that the fact of their backing a given contestant or side in the game does and ought to strengthen that side; or to whom the "mascot" which they cultivate means something more than a jest.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

And the proportion is not much less of those who instinctively dread the "hoodooing" of the contestants or the apparatus engaged in any contest on which they lay a wager; or who feel that the fact of their backing a given contestant or side in the game does and ought to strengthen that side; or to whom the

Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893

Now, ma, you don't believe all them old signs about hoodooing and such stuff.

Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

"I won't be any longer than I can help, and don't you go to hoodooing me, now, while I'm upstairs."

Jewel Clara Louise Burnham 1890