different between koodoo vs hoodoo

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koodoo (plural koodoos)

(dated) Alternative spelling of kudu
- 1976 Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld p. 190. Longman: ?ISBN (The book was first published in 1907).
  "The koodoo lying partly on its side, with both hind-legs hampered by the mass of dead wood, could not rise, but it swept the clear space in front with the terrible horns, and for some time kept Jock at bay."

Apparently an alteration of voodoo.

hoodoo (countable and uncountable, plural hoodoos)

(chiefly US) A practitioner of voodoo.
(chiefly US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
(geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 71:
  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.

hoodoo (third-person singular simple present hoodoos, present participle hoodooing, simple past and past participle hoodooed)

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