My family background is based in New Orleans and I feel like I'm coming home to visit. I heard this name once and I'm interested in knowing if she was actually real or a figment of the imagination.
2007-07-09 15:13:54 · 13 answers · asked by ceadmilefailte1982 4 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ New Orleans
the voodoo queen
2007-07-17 11:33:46 · answer #1 · answered by ReturnOfTheFly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was considered the Voodoo Queen. Here grave is in New Orleans. You can take a cemetary/voodoo tour and it will give you some good background on her.
As an FYI...The big grave with all the etched in crosses on it in St Louis #1 with Marie Laveau's name...its not were she rests but perhaps may be her daughter. Historians recently came out with that Marie Laveau is probably in an unmarked wall grave at St. Louis #3. And the crosses etched on the grave have zero to do with voodoo. It was a radio DJ's fanciful stunt in the 50's.
2007-07-12 11:46:10 · answer #2 · answered by traveler 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Marie Laveau was and still is the most well known American voodoo priestess in New Orleans. She was so important to the city because nowhere else in this country could a woman of color rise to such prominence in the mid 1800's being both a Voodoun practitioner and a woman of much-sought-after healing ability.(my familys background is also based in New Orleans)She was a real woman.
2007-07-09 15:34:05 · answer #3 · answered by babytinkerbellcutie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live in the suburbs of New Orleans. I'm actually not very familiar with Marie Laveau, but, really, who is? Anyway, I do know that Marie Laveau was known as the "Voodoo Queen of New Orleans." Little is known for certain about her life, although there are many legends about her. I really can't give you much info about her but if you want to know more, check out her page on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laveau
2007-07-09 15:26:09 · answer #4 · answered by Ryan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Marie Laveau was a real person. She was the "voodoo queen" in mid-19th century New Orleans. Facts about her life are difficult to discern, because she was one of many practitioners of voodoo in the city back then, but because she was very charismatic and successful, she was imitated and impersonated by several people. She also had a daughter who became a practitioner of what they did, which was really something called "hoodoo," a mixture of folklore and superstition. Marie I and Marie 2 looked very much alike and since she was seen by many people in 2 different places, they thought she had the ability to bi-locate. Marie helped people solve their problems with love, sex, and money by selling them charms with specific instructions on what to do, and she arranged for what she promised would happen. She was said to be a mulatto, a mixture of white and black. She is buried in Saint Louis Cemetery 1, the oldest cemetery in New Orleans. You can take a voodoo/cemetery tour and find out about Marie Laveau and voodoo. I used to do those tours, but I no longer live in New Orleans due to Katrina. There is an exhibit on Marie Laveau and voodoo in the Wax Museum on Conti Street in the Quarter. It's open every day.
2007-07-11 03:11:34 · answer #5 · answered by nolajazzyguide 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Marie LeVeau IS a REAL person! By legend, LeVeau is "the Voodoo Queen" of Louisiana. Given that some Southern slaves arrived on U.S. shores from Haiti, Voodoo culture, practices and beliefs came along with them; LeVeau purportedly came from Haitian ancestry.....and became a prized student of Voodoo.
As LeVeau grew, so did stories of her alleged Voodoo skills, whispered among slave ranks all across the South, eventually reaching plantation slave and crop owners ears as well. Legend carries that LeVeau's Voodoo skills became belief of slave owners, who allowed her to emerge from slave bonds and for undisclosed fees, LeVeau would Voodoo bless the crop harvests--given the condition that such blessings would only work IF captive slaves were at least treated humanely.
If plantation owners later dishonored the spoken contractual bond between them and LeVeau, mysterious and vengeful tragic wrath would befall them---attributed to LeVeau's Voodoo power.
LeVeau's own death is one shrouded in Voodoo mystery, but her passing was mourned city wide in New Orleans--which reputedly led across Louisiana state lines, something of note for the time. LeVeau's final resting place is a revered landmark in one of New Orleans' historic cemeteries.
2007-07-15 18:50:56 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
She is The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Yes, she is real.
2007-07-10 00:37:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, she was real. Read up on her before you visit. Many high society women consulted her for "advice" and her "love potions". Very unusual for that time period.
You can visit her tomb in New Orleans and you will see that many people still think that she has special powers, even beyond the grave.
Have fun!
2007-07-10 02:47:48 · answer #8 · answered by Liz E 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marie Laveau is known as the "Queen of Voodoo." Here's a good website about her: http://www.csicop.org/sb/2001-12/i-files.html
2007-07-09 16:00:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
She WAS a real person but she is long dead. Her tomb is a tourist attraction for people interested in voo-doo. Whether or not her powers were real is a another matter.
Her life is probably better documented than Jean Lafitte the pirate. Detail and concrete info on his life is almost nonexistent.
2007-07-13 23:41:23 · answer #10 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was real and was called "The Queen of American Voodoo".....she was very well known in high society in her day.....going to New Orleans you will learn alot....welcome home...
2007-07-09 15:22:30 · answer #11 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋