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	Voodoo Tomb of Marie Laveau, Voodoo Queen; Investigative Files (Skeptical Briefs December 2001)
		A "free person of color," Marie Laveau was the illegitimate daughter of a rich Creole plantation owner, Charles Laveaux, and his mistress Marguerite (who was reportedly half fl, half Indian).
		Marie worked as a hairdresser, which took her into the homes of the affluent, and she reportedly developed a network of informants.
		A contemporary of Marie II told Tallant (1946, 126) that he had been present when she died of a heart attack at a ball in 1897, and insisted: "All them other stories ain't true.
	www.csicop.org /sb/2001-12/i-files.html (2422 words)

	Marie Laveau Information
		Marie Laveau appears in Isabel Allende's romance Zorro: A Novel.
		Marie Laveau is mentioned in the song "Clare" by Fairground Attraction.
		Marie Laveau is the feature of the country song "Marie Laveau" by Bobby Bare.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Marie_Laveau (416 words)

	Marie Laveau
		The daughter of a white man, Charles Laveau and Darcantel Marguerite, a mulatto with Indian blood, Marie was a tall woman, with fl hair, dark skin that had a distinct reddish cast, and fierce fl eyes.
		Marie II was about 50 years old when her mother died.
		Marie Laveau's tomb in St. Louis Cemetary Number I is frequently covered with rosaries, flowers, coins, and various other offerings.
	members.tripod.com /~eternity500/voodoo.htm (532 words)

	Louisiana Lagniappe: Marie Laveau
		As the story goes she was given a house by a grateful client whom Marie helped with her Voodoo charms called gris-gris (pronounced "gree-gree") -- a magical potion of various crushed herbs concealed in a small bag.
		Some speculated that at least once, Marie actually drugged the gumbo with a substance which caused the premature death of a prisoner who had a date with the hangman, sparing the victim the trauma of execution.
		Marie Laveau was buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in 1881.Her ghost lives on in the minds of her faithful worshipers.
	www.nicholls.edu /engl-wsr/louisiana/laveau.htm (656 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Marie Laveau is the subject of a song ("Marie Laveau") by New Orleans blues singer Dr.
		Marie Laveau is the subject of the country song "Marie Laveau", co-written by Baxter Taylor and Shel Silverstein and made famous by Bobby Bare.
		Marie Laveau is a subject of inquiry in Gabriel Knight.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Marie_Laveau (1116 words)

	News & Opinion: A Plastic Rose for Marie Laveau (Austin Chronicle . 03-20-00)
		We know that sometime in the 1820s, Marie Laveau became the premier voodoo queen of the area, overpowering and, it is said, sometimes causing the deaths of lesser queens and kings who wouldn't recognize her authority.
		In her early years she was a hairdresser to New Orleans' elite, and she is said to have developed an intelligence network of hairdressers, servants, and slaves to ferret out the most embarrassing secrets of the white rich and use them for flmail.
		Marie Laveau helped both to center and anchor what might otherwise have been continually more scattered and dissipated practices, especially with the shocks of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
	weeklywire.com /ww/03-20-00/austin_cols_ventura.html (1198 words)

	Voodoo Dreams - Marie Laveau
		Marie Leveau's best documented exploit involved the murder trial of a young Creole gentleman, a trial which was almost certain to end in a guilty verdict for the young man. His powerful (and skeptical) father approached Marie and promised her anything if she could rescue his son.
		Later in life, in another well-documented event, Marie is known to have helped the wounded during the Battle of New Orleans and was so noted for her efforts that she was invited to the state funeral of General Jean Humbert, a hero from that battle.
		Indeed, Marie frequently visited the sick in New Orleans' prisons, and she was called upon by the city's elite to help combat the Yellow Fever epidemic of the 1850's.
	ame2.asu.edu /sites/voodoodreams/marie_laveau.asp (697 words)

	French Creoles \| Marie Laveau
		From the writing of local historians two Marie Laveaus emerge; one is a free woman of color born in New Orleans in the mid 1790's.
		Marie Laveau and her daughter were said to look remarkably alike, with regal bearing, fl curly hair, golden skin, and a penetrating look in their eyes.
		As the elder Marie Laveau began to fade from the voodoo scene in pre-Civil War New Orleans, her daughter is believed to have stepped in and taken over as voodoo queen.
	www.frenchcreoles.com /CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/marielaveau/marielaveau.htm (339 words)

	Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau says VUDUTUU!
		These people poured out their troubles to Marie as she fixed their hair, and soon Marie was fully conversant with all the skeletons in the closets of all the rich and famous people in New Orleans, and after they aired all their dirty laundry, they felt better.
		Marie was bright and enterprising, and between her knowledge of folks' secrets and her knowldege of mixing up weird-smelling potions and herbs, she began to make quite a reputation for herself and gained respect (and lots of money) for this.
		Eventually when she died, her daughter (also named Marie) took her place and since there was a very strong family resemblance, Marie Laveau was said to have had power to come back from the grave to continue working her magic.
	www.vudutuu.com /vudufrommarie.html (440 words)

	The queen of voodoo - Marie Laveau of New Orleans Essence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marie Laveau--a tall, statuesque and stunning freeborn woman of color--was born in 1794.
		Marie Laveau also presided over the sacred rites, the authentic rites that were held in secret and to which only real voodoo initiates were invited.
		As each Marie settled into middle age, she retired from public life to run the voodoo business from behind the scenes, leaving her daughter to present an ever-youthful image to the public.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n1_v23/ai_12102024 (855 words)

	Marie Laveau
		The daughter of a white man, Charles Laveau and Darcantel Marguerite, a mulatto with Indian blood, Marie was a tall woman, with fl hair, dark skin that had a distinct reddish cast, and fierce fl eyes.
		Marie II was about 50 years old when her mother died.
		Marie Laveau's tomb in St. Louis Cemetary Number I is frequently covered with rosaries, flowers, coins, and various other offerings.
	eternity500.tripod.com /voodoo.htm (532 words)

	Voodoo on the Bayou - Marie Laveau (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marie began as a hairdresser and later became a nurse during the Yellow Fever epidemics.
		Marie Laveau is a name that was respected by everybody and dreaded by a lot of people.
		Marie Lavaux, as is well-known by all the old residents of the city, was the queen of the Voudous, that curious sect of superstitious darkies that combined the hard traditions of African Legends with the fetich worship of our Creole Negroes.
	www.wendymae.com /voodoo/marie_laveau.html (2389 words)

	Amazon.fr : Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau: Livres en anglais: Jewell Parker Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brought to New Orleans from the bayou by her grandmother, a former slave, the fictional Marie is persuaded to marry Jacques, a fl sailor, in order to escape her mother's fate.
		Marie's mother was a voodoo queen who was killed because white people feared her powers.
		Marie leaves Jacques and falls under the spell of John, a voodoo doctor who beats her and exploits her ability to influence crowds.
	www.amazon.fr /Voodoo-Dreams-Novel-Marie-Laveau/dp/0312098693 (475 words)

	Marie Laveau
		She married Jacques Paris, a free Black, on August 4, 1819; her marriage certificate is preserved in Saint Louis Cathedral[?] in New Orleans.
		Paris died in 1820 under unexplained circumstances; after his death, Marie Laveau became a hairdresser who catered to wealthy white families.
		It is also alleged that her feared magical powers came in fact from a network of informants in the households of the prominent that she developed while a hairdresser.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marie_Laveau.html (285 words)

	Marie LaVeau (Witch Queen of New Orleans)
		Marie has also used other magical weapons, such as the Arrows of Eros: A golden arrow can cause its target to follow madly in love and to serve the first person he or she sees.
		Marie took a sample of Morbius' blood, which proved to be in inadequate substitute for true vampire blood, and failed to have any effect whatsoever.
		Marie directed Victor to feed on the blood of Morbius to nourish himself, but Victor, not realizing or accepting that he was a vampire, fled, setting her home on fire in the process (Both Morbius and Marie escaped).
	marvunapp.com /Appendix/laveau.htm (2643 words)

	VOODOO IN NEW ORLEANS & MARIE LAVEAU
		Marie became a legend in New Orleans, which is particularly amazing in such a segregated culture, but she was more than just a Voodoo practitioner.
		It was Marie who brought the Virgin Mary into Voodoo as the central figure of worship and she borrowed freely to bring Catholic traditions into the culture.
		Marie died in June of 1881 but many people never realized that she was gone.
	www.prairieghosts.com /laveau.html (1406 words)

	Tab Country Guitar Tabs - Bobby Bare Guitar Tabs - Marie Laveau
		MARIE LAVEAU Performed by Bobby Bare Written by Shel Silverstein and Baxtor Taylor INTRO (TALK): The most famous of the voodoo queens that ever existed Is Marie Laveau, down in Louisanaa There's a lot of wierd, ungodly tales about Marie, She's supposed to have a lot of magic potions, spells and curses....
		He said Marie Laveau, you handsome witch Gimme a little a little charm that'll make me rich Gimme a million dollars and I tell you what I'll do This very night, I'm gonna marry you Then It'll be (growl) another man done gone.
		So if you ever git down where the fl trees grow And meet a voodoo lady named Marie Laveau If she ever asks you to make her your wife Man, you better stay with her for the rest of your life Or it'll be (growl) another man done gone.
	www.tabcountry.com /song3131/Bobby-Bare-Marie-Laveau (485 words)

	Simon & Schuster: Voodoo Season: A Marie Laveau Mystery (Hardcover) - Q&A
		Marie Laveau, as a spirit figure and as a character, connected me to the community and enabled me to experience great joy in being an imperfect, yet striving, woman.
		In the trilogy, Marie will complete a journey of self-discovery, grow more comfortable with her powers and abilities, become a mother and leader for her community, and find inner happiness in a world that is imperfect and, sometimes destructive.
		Who knew that by making Marie Levant a doctor in Charity Hospital, I was setting the stage for her to be at the heart of a terrifying story for survival that would call upon her skills as both a doctor and spiritual healer and witness.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=510053&agid=8 (1125 words)

	Marie Laveau - Marvel Database (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marie Laveau was born a daughter of slaves to become The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.
		Marie Laveau magickally forced Victor Strange to steal his brother's volume of The DarkHold and to bring it to her.
		In the end, Marie Laveau achieved her goal of returning vampires to earth so that it was now possible for her to perpetuate her youth indefinitely.
	www.marveldatabase.com /Marie_LaVeau (643 words)

	Voodoo Queen: the Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau Black Issues Book Review - Find Articles
		You've probably seen the Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo on 739 Bourbon Street, where all sorts of weird and frightening items are on display and sold.
		Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo Queen who made Congo Square famous, is a New Orleans icon.
		Though the Laveaus' ghosts were slippery, Ward was able to conjure up a shimmery image of them and that image was of two strong business-savvy, spiritually powerful Creole women who lived life to the fullest.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_6_6/ai_n6355869 (654 words)

	Voodoo Queen: the Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau Black Issues Book Review - Find Articles
		You've probably seen the Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo on 739 Bourbon Street, where all sorts of weird and frightening items are on display and sold.
		Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo Queen who made Congo Square famous, is a New Orleans icon.
		Though the Laveaus' ghosts were slippery, Ward was able to conjure up a shimmery image of them and that image was of two strong business-savvy, spiritually powerful Creole women who lived life to the fullest.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_6_6/ai_n6355869 (654 words)

	Marie Laveau: Voodoo Queen of New Orleans
		Some believe Marie was born in 1796 in the Vieux Carre; others believe she was born in 1794 in Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) or Hispanola in the Caribbean.
		Wherever she was born, it is known that she was the daughter of Charles Laveau, a wealthy plantation owner, and a slave, Darcantel Marguerite.
		Though Marie was most likely a powerful and talented practitioner, a lot of her "magic" actually came from the manipulation of her clients.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/historys_wild_women/83839 (567 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Columns: A Plastic Rose for Marie Laveau
		We know that sometime in the 1820s, Marie Laveau became the premier voodoo queen of the area, overpowering and, it is said, sometimes causing the deaths of lesser queens and kings who wouldn't recognize her authority.
		In her early years she was a hairdresser to New Orleans' elite, and she is said to have developed an intelligence network of hairdressers, servants, and slaves to ferret out the most embarrassing secrets of the white rich and use them for flmail.
		Marie Laveau helped both to center and anchor what might otherwise have been continually more scattered and dissipated practices, especially with the shocks of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid:76256 (1473 words)

	TOMB OF MARIE LAVEAU Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, LA - TravelNOLA.com Halloween Event
		Marie Laveau was the reigning Voodoo priestess of the nineteenth century.
		Marie Laveau herself was a mixture: She was a free person of color, born to Charles Laveau, a wealthy French planter, and a mother who sources indicate could have been a mulatto slave, a Caribbean Voodoo practitioner, or a quadroon mistress.
		Marie Laveau could very well be the person who eternally solidified the connection between the City of New Orleans and the practice of Voodoo.
	www.travelnola.com /halloweenneworleans/marielaveautomb (2544 words)

	Marie LaVeau (Witch Queen of New Orleans)
		Marie has also used other magical weapons, such as the Arrows of Eros: A golden arrow can cause its target to follow madly in love and to serve the first person he or she sees.
		Marie took a sample of Morbius' blood, which proved to be in inadequate substitute for true vampire blood, and failed to have any effect whatsoever.
		Marie directed Victor to feed on the blood of Morbius to nourish himself, but Victor, not realizing or accepting that he was a vampire, fled, setting her home on fire in the process (Both Morbius and Marie escaped).
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/laveau.htm (2643 words)

	The queen of voodoo - Marie Laveau of New Orleans Essence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marie Laveau--a tall, statuesque and stunning freeborn woman of color--was born in 1794.
		Marie Laveau also presided over the sacred rites, the authentic rites that were held in secret and to which only real voodoo initiates were invited.
		As each Marie settled into middle age, she retired from public life to run the voodoo business from behind the scenes, leaving her daughter to present an ever-youthful image to the public.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n1_v23/ai_12102024 (855 words)

	Bloody Mary's New Orleans - Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo
		If you are planning on visiting the tomb of Marie Laveau you may pick up a perfect offering here first-cowrie shells, candles or that special something that calls you to her.
		The window of Marie Laveau’s House of Voodoo is both display and altar alike-it gives you a quick overview of awaits within.
		Marie Laveau was known as the Popess of Voodoo and the store seems to be an avatar of just that!
	www.bloodymarystours.com /marielaveaus.html (455 words)

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