Voodoo Queen

The word "voodoo" is not only ambiguous but also frightening. This is because voodoo is complicated, its practice and purpose are geographically and temporally different. "Louisiana Voodoo" is the designated name of Voodoo in the United States from the 18th century to the early 20th century. It is no longer a dominant religion but still a practitioner can find it, but it has a more mythical heritage that was adopted in today's New Orleans culture.

Among the 15 "Queen Voodoo" dotted in New Orleans in the 19th century, Mary Lab is known as "Queen Voodoo", the most outstanding influential Queen among them. In 1874, she performed a religious ceremony on the shore of Pontchartrain on the summer night of St. John, and gathered about 12,000 black-and-white New Orleans. Politicians, lawyers, businessmen, wealthy producers are said to come to her for advice before making important financial or business related decisions. She also saw the poor and slave. Her help seems indiscriminate, but she may like a slave servant. Her most "influential, wealthy customer ... uncontrollable slave ... Lavo's strong appeal that he believed to have escaped their success" When her message about power spreads, she Ruled the other Voodoo leaders in Orleans. Lavau, a Catholic, also encouraged her fans to join Catholic masses. Due to her influence, Catholics became a Voodoo belief system.

After she moved to her new house she quickly began spreading information about her ability to influence the justice system with mysterious spells among the people of New Orleans. Any time, she became a legend of the true voodoo queen of New Orleans. Her intervention in a lawsuit in a local court led to a high reputation in the city of Mary Lavau even among the other Voodoo queen of the other dozen. Hundreds of followers from all walks of life and various races meet in private ceremonies and public ceremonies. In addition to selling charms and potions at the Congo Plaza, casting spells at her home Mary, her daughter Mary Lavau II also held a ceremony at Lake Pontchartrain. According to the ordinance of the city of 1817, the slaves were only allowed to dance publicly in the Congo Plaza, but Mary is a free woman, with sophisticated fireworks, naked dances and sacrifices of animals at the entrance of the cove Was.