hoodoo

Noun

• something believed to bring bad luck

• a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers

• a practitioner of voodoo

• (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock
  • a tall sandstone hoodoo
    

Verb

• bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  juju , voodoo , fetish , fetich