cess vs hoodoo

cess

noun
  • Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success. 

  • An assessed tax, duty, or levy. 

  • The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage. 

verb
  • To levy a cess. 

hoodoo

noun
  • Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck. 

  • A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs. 

  • A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands. 

  • A practitioner of voodoo. 

verb
  • To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to. 

How often have the words cess and hoodoo occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )