Subject:Conjuring / hoodoo terminology
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The speaker’s stated comparison or distinction between conjuring and hoodoo terms; this does not assert that the terms are universally equivalent.
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Entry 2391
(When you were a young boy what did they call this kind of work?)
Cunjuring.
(They called it conjuring? Did they use the word hoodoo?)
No sir, didn't use dat.
(It's a new word?)
It's a new word - it come out since 'mancipation.
(That's what I thought.)
[This old man was born in 1858, years before the appearance of the word. hoodoo - see Introduction for date and use of word.]