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Author : Raymond Joseph Martinez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Vodou
ISBN : LCCN:59032764
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Author : Raymond J. Martinez
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789128581
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 Martinez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : Vodou
ISBN : 0615758657
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
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135872915
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
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813040806
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 : Robert Tallant
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455613703
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 : Ina J. Fandrich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135872922
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 : Ina Johanna Fandrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
ISBN : 0203942620
Author : Jewell Parker Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416510376
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 : Denise Alvarado
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633411425
The life and work of the legendary “Pope of Voodoo,” Marie Laveau—a free woman of color who practically ruled New Orleans in the mid-1800s Marie Laveau may be the most influential American practitioner of the magical arts; certainly, she is among the most famous. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost tours. Her grave in New Orleans ranks among the most popular spiritual pilgrimages in the US. Devotees venerate votive images of Laveau, who proclaimed herself the “Pope of Voodoo.” She is the subject of respected historical biographies and the inspiration for novels by Francine Prose and Jewell Parker Rhodes. She even appears in Marvel Comics and on the television show American Horror Story: Coven, where she was portrayed by Angela Bassett. Author Denise Alvarado explores Marie Laveau’s life and work—the fascinating history and mystery. This book gives an overview of New Orleans Voodoo, its origins, history, and practices. It contains spells, prayers, rituals, recipes, and instructions for constructing New Orleans voodoo-style altars and crafting a voodoo amulet known as a gris-gris.
Author : Tammie Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781527593428
The names Marie Laveaux and Henriette Delille have become synonymous with Vodou and Catholic charity respectively in scholarship. Laveaux and Delille were born femmes de couleur libres, or free women of color, a social class that enabled them to overcome barriers that limited black women activism in nineteenth-century New Orleans. These women were quadroons or octoroons who were expected to engage in placage unions with wealthy, white European men, which had been a matrilineal custom for generations. However, Laveaux and Delille chose a life of service to others rather than a life of privilege. This book explores how Laveaux and Delille used their faith-based practices to address the needs of the city’s poor, enslaved, and disenfranchised populations. It provides readers with an interest in cultural studies, religious and spiritual studies, and gender studies with an introduction to Laveaux and Delille as black women activists in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Author : Martha Ward
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578066298
An evocative dual portrait explores the lives of the Marie Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name who became leaders of indigenous American religious and spiritual traditions in nineteenth-century Creole New Orleans.
Author : K. Samuel,Kameelah L. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137336811
This book engages the ways African American authors have shifted, recycled, and reinvented the conjure woman in fiction. Kameelah Martin Samuel traces her presence and function in twentieth-century literature through historical records, oral histories, blues music, and collections of African American folklore.
Author : Denise Alvarado
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633411456
A magical mystery tour of the extraordinary historical characters that have defined the unique spiritual landscape of New Orleans. New Orleans has long been America’s most magical city, inhabited by a fascinating visible and invisible world, full of mysteries, known for its decadence and haunted by its spirits. If Salem, Massachusetts, is famous for its persecution of witches, New Orleans is celebrated for its embrace of the magical, mystical, and paranormal. New Orleans is acclaimed for its witches, ghosts, and vampires. Because of its unique history, New Orleans is the historical stronghold of traditional African religions and spirituality in the US. No other city worldwide is as associated with Vodou as New Orleans. In her new book, author and scholar Denise Alvarado takes us on a magical tour of New Orleans. There is a mysterious spiritual underbelly hiding in plain sight in New Orleans, and in this book Alvarado shows us where it is and who the characters are. She tells where they come from and how they persist and manifest today. Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints shines a light on notable spirits and folk saints such as Papa Legba, Annie Christmas, Black Hawk, African-American culture hero Jean St. Malo, St. Expedite, plague saint Roch, and, of course, the mother and father of New Orleans Voudou, Marie Laveau and Doctor John Montenée. Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints serves as a secret history of New Orleans, revealing details even locals may not know.
Author : Larry G. Murphy,J. Gordon Melton,Gary L. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1738 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135513450
Preceded by three introductory essays and a chronology of major events in black religious history from 1618 to 1991, this A-Z encyclopedia includes three types of entries: * Biographical sketches of 773 African American religious leaders * 341 entries on African American denominations and religious organizations (including white churches with significant black memberships and educational institutions) * Topical articles on important aspects of African American religious life (e.g., African American Christians during the Colonial Era, Music in the African American Church)