Ghost of the Voodoo Priestess – Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau is the infamous Voodoo queen of New Orleans, and her ghost may be the most elusive in all of the Crescent City. Her legacy in life can be found virtually in every shop, souvenir stand, bar, and of course the House of Voodoo in New Orleans. Her ghost is sometimes seen in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, outside her old cottage on St. Ann street, and walking along the levee overlooking the Mississippi River. It is also believed that the ghost of Marie walks among those who attend church on St. John’s Eve, the most important day on the Voodoo calendar. Many people believe to this day that the power of Marie Laveau is still as strong as it ever was.
Marie was born in Santo Domingo sometime between 1783 and 1794. Her date of death is amazingly June 16th, 1881, being seemingly impossible for someone to live until almost 100 years old in that day and age. She was married to a man named Santiago Paris in August of 1819. Shortly after, Paris died before they could even have any children together. Within a year of his death, Marie married Captain Christophe Duminy Glapion. They had 15 children together, and in order to support such a large family she began to work as a hair stylist, working in the homes of the French Quarter’s wealthiest.
In addition to making money, this job also provided an opportunity to hear all of the gossip in the town. This included rivals, grievances, jealousies, and affairs. She would then use this information to her advantage, in today’s world a practice known as blackmail. Her skills for obtaining private information added to her illusion of magic in the practice of Voodoo. Besides offering private meetings, she also staged large public ceremonies on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. These ceremonies included animal sacrifices, strange exhibitions, and creole dances.
Marie Laveau also earned money by selling charms and gris-gris. Gris-gris were magical substances that were tied together. She was able to bridge the gap between Voodoo practitioners and the religious values of the people of the French Quarter by including Catholic symbols in her ceremonies. Her ghost has also been seen along stores on Rampart Street. There was one time when she allegedly slapped a man in the face for taking too long to pay for his items in one of the shops. The Laveau cottage on St. Ann street is also believed to be haunted by the Voodoo priestess.
(Source: Dwyer, Jeff. Ghost Hunter’s Guide to New Orleans. 2007.)
Of course, I have voodoo power my self, though I keep my self away from it. With our belief we call that curse, there is a curse on me too, I am used to it. I will rather pray, it can be so good. So beautiful to be able of doing something about Justice. My Power, I once prayed for A better life and do something good… Well, the result of My praier was so amazing, God has a strange humor to pick the worst there exist. I made the promise to listen yo Him and obey him. He said, still you are a good person, I thrust you, you can do it. So I dit. That awesome Power to do allmost everything. Beyond imagination. I punish the evil ones and help the good. In a small church elsewhere in town old and weak people prayed for 12 years for my good luck every wednesdaymorning. I cam after 12 years being rich and famous. I heard the where broke and had more than 100.000 euro dept. I was able to arrange that the money to pay that money and they lost their burden. That is so cool. Making peaple happy. Now I can actually help them. Now I know why he choose me, sorry to say, I am perfect for this wonderful job. I feel great. Finally I do good thing, so big, so strong. I have my power now! Put my name on internet. Take it easy. This is for real!!!
JFM Sars Angel of Revenge
I dont believe you JFM Sars… There can practically be no such power in the world and even if it is, God would not give them to only a few persons but all… I want to believe but this is really beyond my idea of the world…
Thank you fot You anwer. First I can understand that You do not believe me. In fact it conforts me. I am in trouble of course but that is the name of my game. In stead, I think I can prove that I am for real, You can try me if You like and have the guts to do so. I was very very busy so that took a while before I saw Your anwer. This is not a joke, I can explain…
Thruth and real Justice, pleased to meet you
JFM Sars Angel of Revenge
this may sound crazy, sometimes i have te power to seee the presetn , things that are happeing at the momet i cant nosee the future in a long ways just 2 o 3 hour in advance until the day that my grand father was dying i had a drean a somebody told me that i need to talk to him before he day and i knew the day that he will die that was the only time that i could see the future 3 day in advance and unfortunatly he die that day that i say he will it really sad i alwyas believe that is is a curse but my parent told me that i can prevent thing to happend but until right now i just see and know but i havent prevent any thing.
y i wake up with only one picture in my mind , i just have a sensation that i need it to , look for help in new orleans and the only thing i knew was that i needed to talk with a lady in new orleans, and i need to look for st mathews , i stat google and i reallized that in new orleans almost all the street have saint names and and googloling more i found the name of marie lavoe and i knew that that was the lady that i looking for , i stat reading about her and i realize that she is dead for more than a 100 years
i start reading more and i found that we there were some coinsidence about me and her , im half black , half white,im born in santo domingo (republica dominicana), im catholic but im also believe in vodoo and she die in 1881 andi born in1981 almost a 100 years after her dead.
my sencon last name is the name of a virgen that meas high in the grace of god, all of this it is kind of a lot of coincides, i want to got to new orlens to visit the tumb of madame lavoe i think she is calling me, if somebody know how i can get in contact with any menber of her family please let me know
if somebody know what this means please help me
i will appreciated that so much
my email is heidy2581@hotmail.com
@JFM Sars
this may sound crazy, sometimes i have te power to seee the presetn , things that are happeing at the momet i cant nosee the future in a long ways just 2 o 3 hour in advance until the day that my grand father was dying i had a drean a somebody told me that i need to talk to him before he day and i knew the day that he will die that was the only time that i could see the future 3 day in advance and unfortunatly he die that day that i say he will it really sad i alwyas believe that is is a curse but my parent told me that i can prevent thing to happend but until right now i just see and know but i havent prevent any thing.
y i wake up with only one picture in my mind , i just have a sensation that i need it to , look for help in new orleans and the only thing i knew was that i needed to talk with a lady in new orleans, and i need to look for st mathews , i stat google and i reallized that in new orleans almost all the street have saint names and and googloling more i found the name of marie lavoe and i knew that that was the lady that i looking for , i stat reading about her and i realize that she is dead for more than a 100 years
i start reading more and i found that we there were some coinsidence about me and her , im half black , half white,im born in santo domingo (republica dominicana), im catholic but im also believe in vodoo and she die in 1881 andi born in1981 almost a 100 years after her dead.
my sencon last name is the name of a virgen that meas high in the grace of god, all of this it is kind of a lot of coincides, i want to got to new orlens to visit the tumb of madame lavoe i think she is calling me, if somebody know how i can get in contact with any menber of her family please let me know
if somebody know what this means please help me
i will appreciated that so much
my email is heidy2581@hotmail.com