Many blues musicians have referred to hoodoo in their songs. Popular examples include "Louisiana Hoodoo Blues" by Ma Rainey, "Hoodoo Lady Blues" by Arthur Crudup, and "Hoodoo Man Blues" by Junior Wells. The Bo Diddley song "Who Do You Love?" contains an extensive series of puns about a man hoodooing his lover. He also recorded an album titled Got My Own Bag of Tricks (1972), a reference to a mojo hand or trick bag. In Chuck Berry's song "Thirty Days" he threatens an ex-lover, telling her that he "...talked to the gypsy woman on the telephone [...] she gonna send out a world wide hoodoo...". Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics for "Hoodoo Voodoo", a song later performed by Wilco and Billy Bragg. Creedence Clearwater Revival made reference to it in their hit song "Born On The Bayou" with the lyrics, "And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin', chasin' down a hoodoo there...."
Zora Neale Hurston recorded many hoodoo practices and tales.
John Berendt describes the alleged business relationship between James Arthur Williams and a conjure-woman called "Miz Minerva" who was married to "Doctor Buzzard" in his non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, in which hoodoo practices play a significant part.
Author Ishmael Reed, in his novels Mumbo Jumbo, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, and others, makes great use of Hoodoo, including characters who are practitioners. Reed also published a number of Hoodoo poems.
Gloria Naylor's novel Mama Day uses hoodoo as both explanation for natural occurrences, and gateway into the magical past of African American slaves on the island of Willow Springs.
Author Charles W. Chesnutt makes significant use of Hoodoo in his 1899 short story collection The Conjure Woman (stories). The collection focuses on an ex-slave named Julius McAdoo, who recounts stories in which African slaves use hoodoo as a means of resisting and avenging themselves against white plantation culture.
Eve's Bayou
The Princess and the Frog
The X-Files "Theef" the fourteenth episode of season seven. The story of a "Hoodoo Man" who seeks revenge against the medical doctor who he believes killed his daughter. It is a good example of how Hoodoo crosses ethnic and cultural lines and how it is not a form of religious worship such as Voodoo but a system of magical practices. The hoodoo "Conjure Man" could be black, native American or as the legend of the famous "Doctor Buzzard" points to, white.
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers centers on a series of cult Voodoo murders, the investigation of which delves heavily into both Voodoo and Hoodoo lore.
In Mystery Case Files: 13th Skull, Hoodoo is identified as "good magic," the opposite of Voodoo.
Supernatural
The Skeleton Key