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1. Marie Laveau - Wikipedia
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laveau
Description: WEBMarie Catherine Laveau (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) [1] [2] [nb 2] was a Louisiana Creole 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 Louisiana Voodoo and ...
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2. Marie Laveau | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Link: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Laveau
Description: WEBFeb 23, 2024 · Marie Laveau (born 1801?, New Orleans, Louisiana [now in the U.S.]—died June 15, 1881, New Orleans) Vodou queen of New Orleans. Laveau’s powers reportedly included healing the sick, extending altruistic gifts to the poor, and overseeing spiritual rites.
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3. Marie Laveau, The Voodoo Queen Of 19th-Century New Orleans
Link: https://allthatsinteresting.com/marie-laveau
Description: WEBJun 6, 2021 · Updated April 7, 2022. Marie Laveau is famous for being New Orleans' voodoo queen, but was she really as evil and mystical as she has been portrayed? In 19th-century New Orleans, Marie Laveau proved that Voodoo was much more than sticking pins in dolls and raising zombies.
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4. Marie Laveau Biography - Learn Religions
Link: https://www.learnreligions.com/marie-laveau-4584917
Description: WEBApr 4, 2019 · By. Patti Wigington. Updated on April 04, 2019. Marie Catherine Laveau was born in New Orleans and rose to fame as a priestess of Voodoo, or Vodoun. Over the years since her death, there has been some overlap between her own legends and those of her daughter, also named Marie Laveau. The younger Marie was a practitioner of Voodoo …
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5. Who was Marie Laveau? - Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo
Link: https://voodooneworleans.com/about-house-of-voodoo/marie-laveau/
Description: WEBThe Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau. Marie Laveau was born a free woman of color in New Orleans in 1801 and became known as The Voodoo Queen during her lifetime through acts of community service, and through the spiritual rites she helped lead in the greater New Orleans area.
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6. Marie Laveau: The Voodoo Queen and the Laveau Legend – DIG
Link: https://digpodcast.org/2021/10/24/marie-laveau/
Description: WEBOct 24, 2021 · Published by Elizabeth Garner Masarik on October 24, 2021. Since her death in 1881 Marie Laveau has morphed from a respected and charitable neighbor, or a “she-devil” and mysterious Voodoo Queen (depending on whose talking), and into a saint of strong, Black, feminist womanhood.
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7. Marie Laveaux (1801-1881) - Blackpast
Link: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/laveaux-marie-1801-1881-2/
Description: WEBApr 8, 2012 · Few lives in African American history are surrounded by more myth and misinformation than the life of Marie Laveaux. Although she is best known today as the “legendary Creole voodoo priestess of New Orleans,” Laveaux was in fact a 19th century hairdresser, confidant, and community leader in New Orleans, who tended the sick and …
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8. Marie Laveau: Separating fact from fiction about New Orleans' …
Link: https://www.nola.com/300/marie-laveau-separating-fact-from-fiction-about-new-orleans-voodoo-queen/article_b68b1247-169a-5164-a399-9e73bbc732fd.html
Description: WEBFeb 13, 2018 · Today: Marie Laveau. The icon: Marie Laveau. The legacy: Over New Orleans' first 300 years, few have embodied the mystique of the city as fully as Marie Laveau, the legendary Voodoo...
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9. The Church: Marie Laveau at St. Louis Cathedral
Link: https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1609
Description: WEBMarie Laveau was a devout Catholic throughout her life. Explore Laveau’s connections to the St. Louis Cathedral and Vodou’s relationship to the Catholic Church. Marie Laveau was born September 10, 1801, to Marguerite Darcantel and Charles Laveaux, both free people of …
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10. Meet Me at the Crossroads: The Life and Legend of Marie Laveau
Link: https://neworleanshistorical.org/tours/show/117
Description: WEBMarie Laveau, perhaps one of the most contested and debated figures in New Orleans history, has no shortage of admirers and doubters. How and why did Laveau, a black woman and religious leader in 19th century New Orleans, become so renowned that her tomb is now one of the most visited gravesites in the United States?