Definition of "jadoo" []

• Magic, sorcery. (noun)

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• "After an incantation and jadoo-music, he caught hold of the handle and raised the bowl and the rice slowly into space."
• "Then, to encourage him further, I said that, if there was any _jadoo_ afoot, I had not the least objection to giving it my countenance and sanction, and to seeing that it was clean _jadoo_ -- white magic, as distinguished from the unclean _jadoo_ which kills folk."
• "Suddhoo that I also understood a little _jadoo_ in the Western line, and would go to his house to see that everything was done decently and in order."