etymology 1: hoodoo - know the ledge

I've learned over the years that the vast majority of words in Black English ( now known as AAVE- African-American Vernacular English) that I thought were made up or just "slang" are actually real words from Africa. In addition most words that appear in the dictionary with the entry "etymology unknown" are African. A classic example being "okay", or as it's said in Mississippi " 'kay ". This is a REAL word, from Wolof, that's been around for probably hundreds of years. Ask any Senegalese person if you don't believe me. Alot of words dealing with rootwork concepts and technology seem to fall into the "slang" and "etymology unknown" catergories. These words are all REAL words from Africa. From time to time I'll break down some of them.
I'm gonna start with the other name of rootwork, the one that it's more popularly known as, hoodoo. It is popular belief that the word is derived from the word voodoo somehow a sort of "slang" form of the word, leading to the belief that hoodoo is somehow a a "slang" form of voodoo, a"sub", entry level system of voodoo. The fact that this belief is very good for the manufacturers and sellers of voodoo (aka hoodoo) supplies is probably a good part of the reason this belief has been so widely disseminated. The other reason is, like most things pertaining to the development of African-American culture, people just didn't know who to ask or where to look. Alot of info has been purposely deflected or buried and you most times have to dig hard and deep to find it.
I quote: "NO, hoodoo is not related etymologically as a word to voodoo. There is a thin strand of semantic connection only. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, black slaves of Hausa origin brought with them to their enslavement in the American south a distinct magic practice called "hoodoo." The word comes directly from the Hausa language where the verb hu'du'ba means 'to arouse resentment, produce retribution.' "...Very early in America, hoodoo came to mean 'jinx' or 'cast a spell on' as a noun and a verb: "Something hoodooed me out in the swamp last night..."
Interesting, to me anyway dude, is that another word that slipped into English from Hausa is bogus, from the Hausa boko-boko meaning fake.
One of the things Hausas brought to the States was their way of working brooms (sorry to dissappoint any Wiccans on this one). Things like jumping the broom and sticking a broom over the door to keep away bad luck came from them. This subject gets touched on here

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