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    Marie 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. 5 days ago · Marie Laveau (born 1801?, New Orleans, Louisiana [now in the U.S.]—died June 15, 1881, New Orleans) was the Vodou queen of New Orleans. Laveau’s powers reportedly included healing the sick, extending altruistic gifts to the poor, and overseeing spiritual rites.

  3. Jun 6, 2021 · Published June 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. Apr 4, 2019 · Marie Laveau, Mysterious Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. 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 like her ...

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  5. The 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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  7. Oct 23, 2020 · Aside from her entrepreneurship and religious practices, Marie Laveau was a woman of charity and selflessness. The site of Laveau’s former home stands just blocks away from New Orleans’s...

  8. Oct 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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