[Ads-l] Further Antedating of "Hoodoo"

[Shapiro, Fred]

hoodoo (OED 1868)

1865 New Berne (N.C.) Daily Times 30 Dec. 2/1 (Genealogy Bank)

The boot-black ... exclaimed: "I's done wid you, old witch man !  He's old king hoodoo, shuah !"

NOTE: The Daily Times item indicates that it is a reprint of the Cairo Democrat.

Fred Shapiro

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