American icon of Voodoo and the most famous Voodoo Queen from New Orleans! The most famous voodoo queen in North America was actually two persons—mother and daughter. They epitomized the sensational appeal of Voodoo in New Orleans during the 19th and 20th centuries. They taught and used the religion’s magical powers to control one’s lovers, acquaintances, enemies, and sex, and were known for their charitable work with the poor.
Marie Laveau (1794? - June 16, 1881?) was an American practitioner of voodoo and the most famous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Marie Laveau is somewhat of a poster child for the mixed races that emerge from New Orleans as she is said to have been a free person of color and part Choctaw. Mam'zelle Laveau was born to a wealthy French planter Charles Laveau, and a mother who may have been a mulatto slave, a Caribbean Voodoo practitioner, or a quadroon mistress.
For such an important figure in American folklore, very little can be known certainly about her life. She is supposed to have been born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1794, the daughter of a white planter and a black woman. She married Jacques Paris, a free Black, on August 4, 1819; her marriage certificate is preserved in Saint Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. M. Paris died in 1820 under unexplained circumstances; after his death, Marie Laveau became a hairdresser who catered to wealthy white families. She took a lover, Luis Christopher Duminy de Glapion, with whom she lived until his death in 1835.Of her magical career, little definite can be said. She is said to have had a snake called Zombi. Oral traditions suggest that the occult part of her magic mixed Roman Catholic beliefs and saints with African spirits and religious concepts. 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 and that she owned her own brothel. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons by apparently instilling fear in their servants whom she "cured" of mysterious ailments.
.On June 16, 1881, the New Orleans newspapers announced that Marie Laveau had died. This is noteworthy if only because she continued to be seen in the town after her supposed demise. It is claimed that one of her daughters by M. Glapion assumed her name and carried on her magical practice after her death.
Like with all Planet Voodoo's authentic Voodoo dolls, these powerful and magickal Marie Laveau Voodoo dolls are lovingly constructed out of a base of sticks and Spanish moss, hand-stitched with the finest fabrics, and adorned with vintage lace, fancy yarns, feathers, and special charms, semiprecious stones, crystals, fetishes, and beads unique to the particular Spirit. Their faces are expertly hand-sculpted and carved out of clay, then baked and painted with details. Each expertly handcrafted Marie Laveau Voodoo Doll is carefully consecrated according to proper Voodoo protocol, anointed with ritual oils, and ritually prepared to house the spirit of the Great Voodoo Queen. Your authentic Marie Laveau Voodoo doll will arrive ready to enhance your connection to the loving and wise spirit of New Orleans Voodoo, Marie Laveau.
Each Marie Laveau Voodoo doll is uniquely handcrafted so please allow for individual variations. The one you receive will vary somewhat due to the individual design, fabrics, feathers, beads, buttons, magical charms, fetishes, hand sculpted face, and other elements of each Marie Laveau Voodoo doll. As such, please allow 4 weeks for the creation and delivery of your Voodoo doll.
Marie Laveau Voodoo dolls measure approximately 10x5 inches tall, are self standing, and come signed by the artist for authenticity.
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