Mysterious Marie Laveau, voodoo queen : and folk tales along the Mississippi
Martinez, Raymond J. (Raymond Joseph), 1889-1982.
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©1956
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Hope Publications
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She tells the people how to make dreams come true -- Marie Laveau embraces the cult, voodooism -- Tales of Marie are as strange as the stories of Noah's ark -- St. John's Eve -- The Queen's famous vase and other fantastic claims -- Did the Marquis de Lafayette visit Marie Laveau? -- Marie had a great interest in the condemned prisoners -- The Mammy of the Old South was not a voodoo character -- The belief in animism -- The death of Marie Laveau -- There were other strange characters -- Outwitting the Yankee -- The Burley Landing election -- Charles the Grinder -- Gris gris on his door-step drove him mad -- Palmistry is one of the oldest of predictive systems -- Jack Tinpan and the ghost at Hollins' Gate.;96 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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