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1020 St. Ann Street - Marie Laveau House
If you pass by the former residence of famed Voodoo Priestess Marie Laveau on the right night, you may witness her and her adoring followers in the midst of a ritual ceremony. The house that currently sits at 1020 St. Ann Street is not her original home, though it does, however, mark the approximate site of where she lived until her death in 1881. In life, Madame Laveau was connected with all manner of affluent New Orleanians through her work as a hair stylist. She developed a web of informants who kept her abreast of the secret details of their lives, making her a powerful local figure. She harnessed this knowledge to secure an influential position in telling fortunes and making gris-gris (pronunciation note: grizz-grizz) for charms, hexes and healing remedies. It is said that she even managed to save condemned men from the hangman's noose.Rumors of Madame Laveau’s fate run the gamut between perpetual youth and immortality to her transformation into a large black crow that still circles above St. Louis Cemetery Number 1. She’s been gone for over a century, yet the city remains under her spell.Photo “Marie Laveau's House of Voodoo, Bourbon Street Between Orleans and St. Ann, French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana 2” by Ken Lund is licensed under (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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