hoodoo

Noun

uncountable US countable

Japanese Meaning

（不可算名詞）北アメリカにおいて、奴隷所有者から隠される形で、奴隷として連れてこられたアフリカ人が、伝統的なアフリカの信仰に基づいて築き上げた一連の霊的実践や伝統

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She studied hoodoo to understand how enslaved Africans preserved their spiritual heritage under slavery.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は、北米で奴隷となったアフリカ人たちが伝統的なアフリカの信仰に基づいて奴隷所有者から隠して築いた一連の霊的実践と伝統を研究して、彼らが奴隷制度下でどのように精神的遺産を守り続けたかを理解しようとした。

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(chiefly US) A practitioner of voodoo.

Sense（3）

(chiefly US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.

Sense（4）

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

It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.

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hoodoos

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