Marie Laveau

New Orleans Voodoo Queen

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Marie Laveau and the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street ( Find out more here.)

Expert Uncovers Birth Record of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau (Learn more here.)

 

Portrait of Marie Laveau
Franck Schneider after George Catlin
c. 1920s
Oil on canvas

Although there is plenty of information about Marie Laveau and her daughter and namesake in the legends and lore of Old New Orleans, known as Marie II, separating the fact from the myth has always been a challenge for those seeking a true history of this famous New Orleans icon. Nearly everything that is known about them originates in the secretive oral tradition of the practitioners of Voodoo and that information has been embellished with hearsay and drama, making an already larger than life persona absolutely formidable in the tales that survive.

Marie Laveau - Voodoo Queen of
New Orleans

The Marie Laveau image by New Orleans' artist, Dimitri Fouquet, of his original oil paintings as featured on Dr. John's
CD "Creole Moon."

Voodoo Queen author, Martha Ward, is quoted in New York Times article on Voodoo:

"Something very real is happening," said Martha Ward, a professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans who wrote one of the forthcoming books about Laveau. "Americans today are hungry for spiritual fulfillment, and voodoo offers a direct experience with the sacred that appeals to more and more people.

"This is especially visible in New Orleans, which has always been a center of those beliefs," Ms Ward said, "Marie Laveau rules the imagination of this city. People think about her, see her, have visions of her, dream about her, talk to her. I know because these people are showing up on my doorstep almost every day."

from "Interest Surges in Voodoo, and Its Queen," New York Times, November 30, 2003

Martha Ward www.marthaward.net/disc.htm One of the famous above-ground cemeteries of New Orleans is known as St. Louis No. 1, the oldest graveyard in the city. A tall marble and stucco tomb there is a site where devotees frequently leave gifts - flowers, candy, salt, coins, beads, bourbon - for Marie Laveau, the famous voodoo priestess. She still attracts attention, and some people still talk to her. One of these is Martha Ward, an anthropologist at the University of New Orleans, who has written

Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

(University Press of Mississippi). It is a book from a strange sort of participatory journalism; the author says she has "relied on dreams, intuition, a hyperactive imagination, and funky Voodoo luck." She admits to standing in front of the tomb and hearing Marie laugh when asked "What really happened?" Marie's answer: "Who knows the whole story, and maybe it's better that way." There is such a gumbo of legend and fact here, along with earnest attempts to clear up history and legal agreements that were deliberately made murky in the first place, that calling upon voodoo as a reference source isn't as dicey as it might seem. Ward is a competent guide through confusing social customs of strange times in a strange locale, and she interprets the gaps as carefully as possible. "There's hardly any peg in this whole narrative that's literal, truthful or absolute," she warns, but there is plenty of good storytelling and historical recreations of New Orleans nonetheless.

Some professors have studied the psychological effects of Voodoo. Psychologists such as Cynthia Telles would probably call a Voodoo curse a self fulfilling  prophecy rather than a evil plot. More people need to realize that Voodoo is in fact a religion which is usually used for healing and creating positive energy. While experts like Dr. Telles acknowledge that some Voodoo practitioners may do negative energy rituals, the effects on the intended victim are more likely to be more psychological than physiological.

 

There is a legend that the infamous New Orleans native and Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau ( Leveaux, Lavaux, Le Veau, Levaux ) never died, that, in fact, her spirit lives on in selected female descendents in Her Secret society, and Laveau's faithful are awaiting her return. Jewell Parker Rhodes (Voodoo Dreams, Douglass's Women, Magic City) births a modern day Marie in the second book of the Marie Laveau/Voodoo trilogy, Voodoo Season: a Marie Laveau Mystery.

 

Marie Laveau and the Devil Baby of Bourbon Street ( Find out more here.)

 

MARIE LAVEAUX Down in Lou´siana where the black trees grow Live a voodoo lady named Marie Laveaux. She got a black cat tooth and a mojo bone, And anyone wouldn´t leave her alone. She go GREEEEEEEEEEEE... Another man done gone. She live in a swamp in a hollow log With a one-eyed snake and a three-legged dog. She got a bent bony body and stringy hair, And if she ever seen you messin´ round there, She go GREEEEEEEEEEEE... Another man done gone. And then one night when the moon was black, Into the swamp came Handsome Jack. A no-good man like you all know, And he was lookin´ around for Marie Laveaux . He said, "Marie Laveaux, you lovely witch, Why don´t you gimme a little charm that´ll make me rich. Gimme million dollars, and I´ll tell you what I´ll do... This very night I´m gonna marry you." It´ll be UMMMMMMMM... Another man done gone. So Marie done some magic and she shook a little sand, Made a million dollars, and she put it in his hand. Then she giggled and she wiggled and she said, "Hey hey, I´m gettin´ ready for my wedding day." But ol´ Handsome Jack said "Goo-bye Marie. You too damn ugly for a man like me." So Marie started shakin´, her fangs started gnashin´, Her body started shakin´, and her eyes started flashin´. She went GREEEEEEEEEEEE... Another man done gone. So if you ever get down where the black tree grow And meet a voodoo lady named Marie Laveaux, And if she ever asks you to make her your wife, Man, you better stay with her for the rest of your life Or it´ll be GREEEEEEEEEEEE... Another man done gone. Words and music by Shel Silverstein & Baxter Taylor Recorded by Bobby Bare

 

MARIE LAVEAU ON THE INTERNET

Voodoo Dreams - Marie Laveau
It was said that sometimes Marie Laveau herself would dance with her large snake, Zombi, wrapped around her. Voodoo worshipers believed that even the snake ...

http://ame2.asu.edu/sites/voodoodreams/marie_laveau.asp

! The Voodoo Queen: Marie Laveau and New Orleans Voodoo
There's much more to Voodoo than the stereotypical witch doctor fiendishly jabbing needles into dolls. The most prominent figure in the true history of ...

http://www.parascope.com/en/articles/voodooQueen.htm

Laveau, Marie
Marie Laveau I, the mother, supposedly was born in New Orleans in 1794 and was considered a free woman of color. Being a mulatto, she was of mixed black, ...

http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/l/laveau_marie.html

Marie Laveau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alleged portrait of Marie Laveau, which hangs in the Louisiana State Library in ... Marie Laveau also appears in the novel Voodoo Dreams written by Jewell ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laveau

Voodoo Tomb of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen; Investigative Files ...
Among the sites associated with New Orleans voodoo is the tomb of its greatest figure, Marie Laveau. For several decades this.

http://www.csicop.org/sb/2001-12/i-files.html

Marie Laveau - restaurang / bar / nattklubb
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MARIE LAVEAU'S TOMB
(Example: "Beautiful Marie Laveau, love queen of New Orleans, please grant ... Answer: Marie Laveau is the most well known American voodoo priestess to have ...

http://www.spellmaker.com/marie.htm

VOODOO IN NEW ORLEANS & MARIE LAVEAU
No study of ghostly tales or strangeness in New Orleans would be complete without mention of Marie Laveau, the unchallenged "Queen of Voodoo" in New Orleans ...

http://www.prairieghosts.com/laveau.html

French Creoles | Marie Laveau
Come on in and learn something new, Read about the forgotten Creole culture of America. Home brewed mixture of African, French, Spanish, ...

http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/f ... es/marielaveau/marielaveau.htm

Voodoo in New Orleans: Marie Laveau Photos
This was once the house of Marie Laveau II, one of the orignal Marie's fifteen children. It is now a tourist shop called Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo. ...

http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet

 

 

 

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