Mysterious Marie Laveau Voodoo Queen

Author : Raymond J. Martinez
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789128587
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysterious Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen written by Raymond J. Martinez and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond J. Martinez’ book on legends, lore, and unvarnished truths surrounding New Orleans’ most famous Voodoo mistress also features other tales from surrounding parishes of days long gone by, an illustrated guide to palm-reading, humorous asides, and over 30 fascinating drawings and images. In addition to facts and folklore about Laveau, including revealing research into some debunked myths and unanswered questions, the book offers entertaining stories of her life and the people around the New Orleans area.

Author : Raymond Joseph Martinez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysterious Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen written by Raymond Joseph Martinez and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gift local 09-30-2002 $5.95.

Author : Raymond Martinez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615758657
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysterious Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen, and Folk Tales Along the Mississippi written by Raymond Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book on legends, lore, and unvarnished truths surrounding New Orleans' most famous Voodoo mistress-now in a modern, legible format. It also features other tales from surrounding parishes of days long gone by, an illustrated guide to palm-reading, humorous asides, and over 30 fascinating drawings and images. In addition to facts and folklore about Laveau-including revealing research into some debunked myths and unanswered questions-the book offers entertaining stories of her life and the people around the New Orleans area, such as: * Lafayette's visit to New Orleans . . . and to Marie Laveau herself? * How Marie Laveau turned hate into love for some wishful suitors * How she earned her free house on St. Ann Street, and how her death made city newspapers go wild * The man with two wives-in two languages-and therefore a roosterhead in his coatpocket * Why New Orleans doorsteps are so clean * How an utter idiot won the election for mayor of Burley Landing * The proper use of gris gris, and the meaning of palm mountains and lines * How an honest thief fooled an unsuspecting Yankee * Why zombies are created to be used as farmhands This book is presented in a quality new edition with all the illustrations from the original properly presented, as well as additional images found only in the Quaint Press edition of this well-known look into the folklore of old New Orleans.

Author : Ina J. Fandrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135872910
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux written by Ina J. Fandrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the emergence of powerful female leadership in New Orleans' Voodoo tradition. It provides a careful examination of the cultural, historical, economic, demographic and socio-political factors that contributed both to the feminization of this religious culture and its strong female leaders.

Author : Carolyn Morrow Long
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813040809
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Orleans Voudou Priestess written by Carolyn Morrow Long and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2007-10-07 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Orleans, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau disentangles the complex threads of the legend surrounding the famous Voudou priestess. According to mysterious, oft-told tales, Laveau was an extraordinary celebrity whose sorcery-fueled influence extended widely from slaves to upper-class whites. Some accounts claim that she led the "orgiastic" Voudou dances in Congo Square and on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, kept a gigantic snake named Zombi, and was the proprietress of an infamous house of assignation. Though legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, she also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church. The true story of Marie Laveau, though considerably less flamboyant than the legend, is equally compelling. In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths and complete fabrication, Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Marie Laveau's African and European ancestors became intertwined. Changes in New Orleans engendered by French and Spanish rule, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation affected seven generations of Laveau's family, from enslaved great-grandparents of pure African blood to great-grandchildren who were legally classified as white. Simultaneously, Long examines the evolution of New Orleans Voudou, which until recently has been ignored by scholars.

Author : Jewell P. Rhodes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312119317
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voodoo Dreams written by Jewell P. Rhodes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Marie Laveau, a legendary nineteenth-century New Orleans voodoo queen.

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416510370
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Season written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewell Parker Rhodes, who has earned legions of fans with her masterful fiction, launched her career as an award-winning novelist with Voodoo Dreams, based on the legend of New Orleans's most famous voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau. Voodoo Season, Rhodes's fourth novel, revisits the mystical landscape of Louisiana, but now, for the first time, the celebrated author of historical fiction presents a mystery set in the here and now. This is the story of Marie Levant, a great-great granddaughter of Marie Laveau and a medical doctor compelled by unseen forces to relocate from Chicago to her family's native home. This is New Orleans, where the slave-holding past merges with the twenty-first century, a place where women of color are still being abused, raped, and -- even more horrifying -- rendered "un-dead," zombie-like Sleeping Beauties. The Quadroon Balls of yesterday are a present reality and only Marie Levant can untangle the medical mystery. A smart modern-day heroine, unafraid of her sexuality, Marie Levant extends the Laveau legacy of spiritual empowerment, prophetic vision, and voodoo possession. Voodoo Season is a fresh and original work of fiction that is a magical womanist tale of mystery and power.

Author : Robert Tallant
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455613700
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voodoo Queen written by Robert Tallant and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1984-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witch? Sorceress? Daughter of Satan? Thief? Saint? Born in 1794, Marie Laveau reigned as the undisputed Queen of the Voodoos for nearly a century. Her beauty and powers were legendary, and caused her to be the subject of wild gossip throughout her life. She passed on her secrets to a favorite daughter, who helped her dominate the underworld of voodoo in New Orleans. "It is an absorbing tale, and the emotional undertones, the conflicts in her human relations, the overwhelming loneliness of her position, all come through the story of a strange life." Kirkus Reviews "The author creates a vivid, haunting atmosphere, which (like Marie's arts) holds the reader in spell. . . . an intriguing novel that is competently mounted and exceedingly well executed." New York Times

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marie Laveau written by Francine Prose and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145169895X
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Season In Season (formerly titled Voodoo Season), Jewell Parker Rhodes revisits the sensual, magical landscape of her highly acclaimed debut novel, Voodoo Dreams. Moon In the second part of the New Orleans trilogy that began with Voodoo Season, Rhodes takes on an ancient African vampire in today’s Big Easy, where thrilling chills await. Hurricane In the stunning conclusion to award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes’s mystery trilogy, Dr. Marie Lavant, descendent of Voodoo queen Marie Laveau, must confront a murderous evil in New Orleans.