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Marie Laveau. The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. A name whispered in French Quarter alleys for nearly 150 years.

Was she a compassionate healer who nursed yellow fever victims and prayed with condemned prisoners? Or a ruthless sorceress who cursed bloodlines into extinction and commanded spirits that bent reality?

In this episode, we separate documented history from accumulated legend—exploring the REAL Marie Laveau: a free woman of color who built impossible power across brutal racial boundaries in 19th-century Louisiana.

We cover:

• Her verified baptismal records and the lies newspapers told about her age
• The gris-gris bags, the snake named Li Grand Zombi, and the St. John's Eve ceremonies at Bayou St. John
• Her intelligence network that made her appear genuinely clairvoyant
• The troubling fact that she owned enslaved people
• The "Marie Laveau II" mystery—did her daughter secretly replace her?
• Post-death sightings and the X-marked tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1
• Why her ghost is STILL reported walking through the Tremé

From Congo Square to condemned cells. From Catholic Mass to Voodoo altars.

This is New Orleans Voodoo history like you've never heard it.

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CREDITS:

Hosts: Lee ,Jen, Josh 

Sources: Carolyn Morrow Long's A New Orleans Voudou Priestess (2006), Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men (1935), Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Federal Writers' Project interviews, contemporary newspaper accounts (Daily Picayune, New Orleans Republican, Times-Picayune 1870s-1890s).

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