why are hoodoos called hoodoos
In English, meaning altered to âbring bad luckâ, then applied to things thought to bring bad luck, including the thin spires of rock now called hoodoos. Some hoodoos (spires of rock). A hoodoo, showing why it is also called a tent rock. hoodoo â(plural hoodoos) 1  African traditional folk magic. ( geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.