the story behind marie laveau and other wiccan,voodoo.sacrifice storys?

Question

i'd like some wiccan hooropr stoorys and some background on marie laveau....i.e

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i mean wiccan horror storys

i meant like the story of marie laveau, wiccan witches, and sacrificial horror storys....etc.

Answer 1

Marie Laveau was a self proclaimed Vodoo Queen of New Orleans. There are a lot of stories of her great power. One story says because she was a hairdresser and was able to eavesdrop on the rich women's conversations. She was suspected of using bribery and cohersion to get people to bend to her will. Many believe she was well over a hundred years old but did not look a day over 30. It is believed that her daughter, that looked just like her, took her place as Queen and claimed to be Marie Laveau herself. No one knows the true grave of Marie. She did not want her body to be stolen. The faithful New Orleans followers believe her tomb in St. Louis Cemetary # 1. They visit her grave and leave offerings and mark 3 X's on her tomb for a wish.

As far as sacrifice in Vodou goes it is not a bad thing at all. When we make a sacrifice to the lwa we thank the animal for giving it energy to the offering. We also cook all animals that are sacrificed to feed the house and the community. The only animals that are not eaten are those used the cleanse and heal. Sacrifice is not done on a regular basis either. At least not in the U.S. We have the luxury of buying food at the store. In Haiti sacrifice is done at every service because they don't have store to buy frozen meat. In their everyday living they kill animals to eat. It is a foreign idea to those living wealthy countries.

I have not heard of animals sacrifices in Wicca. In Wicca you are taught to revere nature and all the creatures residing in it. The Wicca rede states, "An it harm none, do as you will" This means killing animals.

Answer 2

Read books and study history make up your own mind who she was I'd suggest getting this book: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769 (The Royal Diaries) The French Revolution: A History (Modern Library Classics) (Paperback) The truth is Marie Antoniette never said 'Let them eat cake it' was actuallly Marie Therese the Wife of King Louis XIV almost a 100 years before.

Answer 3

Voodoo only use animals to sacrifice. Wiccans do not use any living thing. WE have found other ways of using that kind of engey. Most of the stories are used to scare kids into thinking any thing but thier relgion is evil. Why don't you try to do some reading and learn what these faiths are about insted of making wild statements like this one. I am pagan as was my family as far back as we can go and in non of thier book of shadows as there been any thing said about killing anything.
I am reporting you as this is very hurtful towards people of other faiths that are different than what is "mian stream'

Answer 4

Marie Laveau wasn't wiccan. She didn't sacrifice anyone.

As for wiccan horror stories or sacrifice, look into the Salem witch trials. Few if any of the women "sacrificed" were wiccan though.

Answer 5

There is a good book (if you can find it ;) ) called Voodoo In New Orleans. It is by Robert Tallant and it is informative, unbiased and has lots of tales from the mouths of the people of the city at the time that Madame LeVeau and other prominant voudouennes and witch doctors. This is the BEST real life book on the subject IMO.

Actually here is a link: http://www.amazon.com/Voodoo-New-Orleans-Pelican-Pouch/dp/088289336X

Answer 6

All that I know of Marie Laveau, is that she was considered to be a very powerful witch in Louisianna.

She is buried in New Orleans, I think, at a very famous cemetary. People who believe can ask her advice still, but they have to pay for it by leaving offerings there. Booze, etc. poured over the grave, possibly...

Many believe she was reincarnated many times in the same location. Many say she always had a daughter, and always named her Marie Laveau.

Answer 7

Marie Laveau (1794? - June 16, 1881?) was an American practitioner of voodoo.

Very little is known with any certainly about the life of Marie Laveau. She is supposed to have been born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1794, the daughter of a white planter and a black woman. She married Jacques Paris, a free Black, on August 4, 1819; her marriage certificate is preserved in Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.

M. Paris died in 1820 under unexplained circumstances; after his death, Marie Laveau became a hairdresser who catered to wealthy white families. She took a lover, Luis Christopher Duminy de Glapion, with whom she lived until his death in 1835.

Of her magical career, little definite can be said. She is said to have had a snake called Zombi. Oral traditions suggest that the occult part of her magic mixed Roman Catholic beliefs and saints with African spirits and religious concepts. It is also alleged that her feared magical powers came in fact from a network of informants in the households of the prominent that she developed while a hairdresser and that she owned her own brothel. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons by apparently instilling fear in their servants whom she "cured" of mysterious ailments (Which she may have caused or suggested, a form of professional munchausen's disorder).

On June 16, 1881, the New Orleans newspapers announced that Marie Laveau had died. This is noteworthy if only because she continued to be seen in the town after her supposed demise. It is claimed that one of her daughters by M. Glapion assumed her name and carried on her magical practice after her death.

She is buried in Saint Louis Cemetery #1 in New Orleans, in the Glapion family crypt. The tomb continues to attract visitors who draw three crosses (XXX) on its side, hoping that her spirit will grant them a wish

Answer 8

No such thing. We cherish and nurture life. You are sadly misinformed.

An ye harm none, do as ye will.

Blessed be

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