Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jinxed, cursed.

1873		J. O’Connor Wanderings of a Vagabond 356: D—n me if I don’t believe the house is ‘hoo-dood’.
1878–9		A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 268: I was leaving behind this hoodoo gulch forever casting glances behind me, as though the devil was still after me.
1889		Kansas Times and Star 17 Sept. n.p.: Joe Bracken took sick Friday, September 13, but says that hoodoo date doesn’t discourage him [OED].
1895		J. London ‘And ’Frisco Kid Came Back’ in High School Aegis X (4 Nov.) 2–4: I struck a jay town on de C.B. and Q. jerk an’ got hoodooed.
1899–1900		C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 17: ‘Now, St. Louis was my hoodoo town,’ said Ex-Tank No. 3.
1907		W.M. Raine Wyoming (1908) 57: Now ain’t that hoodooed luck?
1914		M. Gerry Masks of Love 168: Kansas City had always been a ‘hoodoo town’ for Newbold’s productions [DA].
1926		J. Black You Can’t Win (2000) 147: This town has me hoodooed.
1929		E. Dahlberg Bottom Dogs 82: it was Mush who gave him that hoodoo name, Shrimp.
1935		H. McCoy They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? in Four Novels (1983) 20: Boy, am I hoodooed!
1937		D. Fuchs Low Company 67: Never no luck! Hoodooed for life.
1945		Botkin Lay My Burden Down 30: That’s how the niggers say Old Bab Russ used to make the hoodoo hands he made for the young bucks and wenches.