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Synonymous with New Orleans, voodoo first came to Louisiana with enslaved West Africans, who merged their religious rituals and practices with those of the local Catholic population. New Orleans Voodoo is also known as Voodoo-Catholicism. It is a religion connected to nature, spirits, and ancestors.
Voodoo came to New Orleans in the early 1700s, through slaves brought from Africa’s western “slave coast.” Like so many things New Orleans, Voodoo was then infused with the city’s dominant religion, Catholicism, and became a Voodoo-Catholicism hybrid sometimes referred to as New Orleans Voodoo.
Embedded in New Orleans Culture. THE ORIGINS OF LOUISIANA VOODOO. Origins and Early Practioners. New Orleans Voodoo was born from the marriage of African Traditions and Creole Culture, merging French, Spanish, Catholic and Native beliefs, and later, a strong Haitian influence.
Louisiana VooDoo. The New Orleans VooDoo were a professional arena football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They were members of the Arena Football League from 2004 to 2015. The VooDoo were the second team to play in the Arena Football League and play in New Orleans, the New Orleans Night, who had competed in the 1991 and 1992 AFL seasons ...
Oct 5, 2014 · From Benin to Bourbon Street: A Brief History of Louisiana Voodoo. We trace the history of NOLA's Voodoo Spiritual Temple, where Eyehategod's Joey LaCaze was laid to rest. by Kim...
Sep 20, 2021 · For generations, his family—from his enslaved Louisiana ancestors back to those who lived in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) and before that in Africa—has practiced the ancient religion of Vodou (VOH-doo).
Mar 31, 2022 · Mar 31, 2022 • By Olivia Barrett, BA & MA History. Voodoo came to New Orleans via Haiti, thanks to the spectacularly successful slave insurrection now known as the Haitian Revolution. In Louisiana, voodoo put down roots and became an established religion, led primarily by powerful women: “voodoo queens.”
