#voodoo Queen

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Marie Laveau 🐍

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IMtober Day 3 - Letter

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Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau in AHS: Coven (b. 1958, US)

African-American (Nigerian and ethnic groups from surrounding areas, European — mostly British)

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Marie Laveau. Voodoo Queen.

Marie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a Louisiana Creole (free women of color) practitioner of Voodoo, herbalist and midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Her daughter, Marie Laveau II (1827 – c. 1862), also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism as well as New Orleans Voodoo. Her daughter was to me the most powerful one.

Her Real Story. Her house was probably on St. Ann St. She would have lived in a creole cottage similar to the one in this picture but probably not as clean.

She did have kids with her husband but there's no record of them as adults so they probably died young. Her and her husband did get married at St Louis cathedral he was a Haitian man. Then sometime around 1825. Jacques Perry her husband so called disappeared they tried to make it a big mystery but in all honesty people back then didn't really report that loved ones death. After St Louis cathedral burned down they lost all the records so later on she started calling herself the widow Perry which gives the idea that Jacques did die. The story of her actually being a hairdresser there is no record her being a hairdresser there was a book that was written by George Washington Cabal in 1880 who wrote about a voodoo priestess who was a hairdresser and people later on assume that he was speaking about Marie Laveau which I think is a cool story to keep her memory alive. There is only one article that mentions her and voodoo but we don't know a 100% if she did practice it or not, I think she did as well as being a root worker. Now there was also another man Kristoff Glapion and one of the stores that they have of him is that he was born a free man of color but records show that he was actually born of two white parents. She wasn't married to this man kristoff because at that time a black woman could not marry a white man but she did stay with him and lived their with him until his death. The historian believe they stayed together for probably around 30 years. She did pout him in the Perry tomb. After kristoff died she was in so much financial debt they had to sell off the house on Saint Ann Street to pay for his funeral and anything else that needs to be paid off. So she didn't have a place to stay until one of their family friends name Crocker bought the property and let her stay there until she died.

HER FATHER'S ETHNICITY : She was born Marie Laveaux, as her father was Charles Laveaux. Many sources are in error stating her father was a White plantation owner. He in fact was a Mulatto grocery store owner, born a free man of color. He is allegedly the son of Charles (Don Carlo) Trudeau and an unknown Laveaux.

Legend.

The legend of Marie Laveau it runs deep through the veins of New Orleans. The Voodoo priestess was believed to have been born free in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1794, the daughter of a white planter and a free Creole woman of color.

The source of this power was the Voodoo religion and its queen, Marie Laveau. She was worshiped at the same time she's was feared by people of all races. Some people believe that her powers were actually based on a network of informants. Being a hairdresser, she was able to lesson to her clients (mostly white) gossip. She used this inside information to influence and instill fear in her believers. Whether or not the legends of this Voodoo priestess are true, it cannot be denied that she has left her mark on the city. She was buried in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans in 1881. Her daughter in St Louis cemetery no. 2

MARIE LAVEAU II MYSTERY: There is myth and mystery behind a named Marie Laveau II. No document listed a Marie Laveau II as Marie Laveau's daughter, but the name sure does have a crazy story behind it, claiming that Marie Laveau had magically become Marie Laveau II so she could live on forever. Truth is, Marie had a daughter named Marie who was a devout Catholic as well as Marie-Heloise who did not turn to Voodoo and died in her 30s. Any of those Maries could have been twisted into the stories, by name only, as none of them were Voodoo practitioners as far as we know.

To this day her and her daughters tomb continues to attract visitors who unlawfully desecrate it by marking three “X”s (XXX) on its side, in the hopes that Laveau’s spirit will grant them a wish. Ok, let me say first no one who practices Voodoo whenever desecrate a grave of writing on it second she isn't a voodoo spirit since Louisiana Voodoo is part Haitian and African she's not a elevated spirit. She's a woman that is well known and well respected within our city. What she really is in voodoo. She's a conjured spirit similar to a saint she is called upon to do a specific task.

Here is a pic I took of the largest international Marie laveau shrine in the US.

BECOMING A DEVOTEE: these days Marie Laveau devotees are no different they still believe in Jesus and saints, just as Madame Marie did. They go to church, pray the rosary, and work the gris gris. Some voodooist here in New Orleans believe Marie Laveau is one of the Lwa (Loa) in Voodoo tradition. She is not a elevated spirit but is a folk saint. She is honored on many altars and shrines through New Orleans. People pray to her or even make wishes to her. Understand who she was and what she did for people and the city. The rituals and blessings she preformed like the St John's Eve blessings. So get to know her.

BUILDING AN ALTAR Building her altar isn't complicated a statue or pic of her. You can add flowers. Candles white, blue or red or even add her veves. (symbol) (normally she wouldn't have the symbol because she's not a voodoo spirit but she's important so they made one for her anyway)

OFFERING: This can be flowers, mini liquor bottle, cigarettes, cigars. Money she's not picky.

Your relationship with spirit will be different from the next person’s. The connection you make with Marie Laveau will be unique to only you.

This video I took of her shrine in The Healing Center. In New Orleans.

If your in the city check it out on St Claude in the building is the Island of Salvation Botanica own by priestess Sally Ann.

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I hate being sick. So Imma ramble about Bendy in my villain AU. ✌️

So Bendy in this AU never met Boris. He never stole that hunk of meat, he never ran into that alleyway. Didn’t. Happen.

So he grew up in the system without a little brother to care for. Treated horribly and unfairly for being a demon. Bounced around orphanages and foster homes, running or being sent away from each one. He eventually developed a hatred for people in general. Because they all treated him the same way.

Until when Bendy is sent to an orphanage all the way in Louisiana. It ends up the same way with Bendy running away from the orphanage to the city of New Orleans and he’s found by a certain Voodoo Queen.

She takes Bendy in and raises him along side her other son, Kid Facilier (I don’t think there’s an official name for him so unless if I decide to come up with a name for him then he’s just gonna be known as Kid Facilier).

He grows up with a loving and doting mother and a fun little brother, learning his mother’s ways of magic and voodoo and developing his own magic, learning to harness it and understand it. Eventually as he gets older he starts his own shop similar to that of an antique or pawn shop. There he collects ancient and magical items, rich, powerful, pieces of history and “rents” them out to paying customers. He also has a little gaggle of friends, to which owe him favors, who he also pawns out their abilities and help to people. And he pawns out his own magic and help. Doing people favors or for money or other fascinating artifacts. (If you’ve seen Once Upon a Time his buisness works like Mr. Gold/Rumpelstiltskin)

He knows Cuphead and Black Hat due to business. They’ve had to lend each other help and favors at times. And when Hat became the Devil they made a kind of mutual agreement that Bendy live independently from the demons. He doesn’t often interact with them nor does he really have any interest outside of work. So they just leave him alone and let him do his own things as long as he doesn’t cross and boundaries or get in trouble with any angels.

Bendy and Boris do meet at some point but it doesn’t make sense until you know Boris’ backstory.

Im definitely open to questions on this one, same with the others!

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Marie Laveau House of Voodoo, 628 Bourbon St, New Orleans (French Quarter), LA 70130

I hope Marie Laveau’s heirs are receiving something from a store that uses her name to sell voodoo items. The no pictures signs weren’t very welcoming. There were multiple no photo signs in the shop, plus a security guard by the door and an employee who kept mentioning that they do voodoo readings.

The shop is small and very cluttered. There were many kinds of voodoo dolls – different sizes and for different purposes. They also sell many necklaces, charms, beads, earrings, oils, candles, African wooden masks, statues, books, t-shirts, etc. The voodoo dolls looked handmade and were reasonably priced (about $25 and under).

There’s a shrine dedicated to Marie Laveau and a separate area in the back for voodoo readings.

3 out of 5 stars

By Lolia S.

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...why has it taken me this long to realize Dr. Facilier saying he was royalty himself on his mother's side was an obvious joke about being related to Marie Laveau

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THE INKY MYSTERY POSTER!

I made this yesterday.

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✨voodoo divers✨

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CRUSH YOUR SOUL TO DUST WITH HER DARK VOODOO POWERS.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the complete set of promotional pictures for the Voodoo Queen six inch action figure by McFarlane Toys, part of McFarlane's Monsters Series 1, released in April 2002.

BRAND: McFarlane's Monsters

GENRE: Horror & Fantasy

PRODUCT TYPE: Action Figure

SERIES: McFarlane's Monsters

Sources: https://mcfarlane.com/toys/voodoo-queen & www.dreamfair.com/post/1005243.html.

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Two girls that still hold on to the negative words if they're past Scarlette having her father and sister insult her, Scarlette was blinded by acid by her sister and father, her tear ducts are damaged to the point she crys a mix of tears and blood, she doesn't like to cry cause shes losing blood Hellebore having her siblings blame her for they're mother dying in childbirth to have her, Hellebore father never stepped in to his children it wasn't her fault she died in childbirth it was theyres since his depression hit him hard

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On September 10th we venerate Elevated Ancestor, Voodoo Queen of Louisiana, & Saint, Marie Catherine Laveau on her 222nd birthday 🎉

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Marie Catherine Laveau was a dedicated Hoodoo, healer, herbalist, & midwife who, "traveled the streets [of New Orleans] like she owned them", as the most infamous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Marie C. Laveau I was born a "Free Mulatto" in today's French Quarter in what was then, New France); to a mother & grandmother who were both born into slavery & later freed via freedom papers. It is believed that she grew up in the St. Ann Street cottage of her maternal grandmother.

She married Jacques Santiago-Paris, a "Quadroon" "Free Man of Color", who fled as a refugee from Saint-Domingue, Haiti from the Haitian Revolution in the former French colony . After his passing, she became known as "The Widow Paris". She then worked as a hairdresser catering to White families & later entered a domestic partnership with a French nobleman his death. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons by instilling fear in their servants whom she either paid or cured of mysterious ailments. Although she never abandoned her Catholic roots, she became increasingly interested in her mother’s African traditional beliefs. The Widow Paris learned her craft from a ‘Voodoo doctor’ known variously as Doctor John or John Bayou.

Marie C. Laveau I is said to have intiated into Voodoo career sometime in the 1820s. She's believed to be descended from a long line of Voodoo Priestesses, all bearing her same name. She was also a lifelong devout Catholic. It didn’t take long before Marie C. Laveau I dominated New Orleans Voodoo culture & society before claiming title of Queen. She was the 3rd Voodoo Queen of NOLA - after Queen Sanité Dédé & Queen Marie Salopé. During her decades tenure, she was the premier beacon of hope and service to customers seeking private consultations - to aid in matters such as family disputes, health, finances, etc, created/sold gris gris, perforemed exorcisms. While her daughter Marie II was known for her more theatrical displays of public events, Marie C. Laveau I was less flamboyant in her persona. She conducted her work in 3 primary locations throughout the city: her home on St. Ann Street, Congo Square, & at Lake Pontchartrain. Despite one account of a challenge to her authority in 1850, Marie C. Laveau I maintained her leadership & influence.

The Queen died peacefully in her sleep in her ole cottage home on St. Ann Street. Her funeral was conducted according to the rite of the Catholic Church & in the absence of any Voodoo rites. To her Voodoo followers, she's venerated as a Folk Saint. In² addition to her Priesthood in Voodoo and title of Queen, she is also remembered for her community activism; visiting prisoners, providing lessons to women of the community, & doing ritual work for those in need.

She is generally believed to have been buried in plot 347, the Glapion family crypt in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans. As of March 1st, 2015, there is no longer public access to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Entry with a tour guide is required due to continued vandalism & tomb raiding.

We pour libations & give her💐 today as we celebrate her for her love for & service to the people, through poverty, misfortune, bondage, & beyond.

Offering suggestions: flowers + libations at her grave, catholic hymns, holy water, gold rings/bracelets, money

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️