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Voodoo dronning Marie Laveau er
begravet i Saint Louis #1. Hvad mange ikke ved er, at hun i
virkeligheden var to personer, mor og datter.
Den ældre Marie Laveau var
mulat, født i New Orleans omkring 1794. Hendes mand, Jacques
Paris, forsvandt på et tidspunkt af uvisse årsager,
hvorefter hun begyndte at kalde sig "enke."
Marie Laveau var
damefrisør, og kvinderne fortalte hende alle deres
drømme og problemer. Marie kunne hjælpe dem med den
voodoo, hun havde lært som barn blandt de sorte i Louisiana, og
hun fik ry for at være god til det.
I 1826 fandt Marie Laveau sammen
med Louis Christopher Duminy de Clapion, som hun fik femten
børn med over en kort årrække, skønt de
aldrig blev gift. Det var efter hans død, hun helligede sig voodoo-karrieren
fuldstændig, blandede den med katolicisme og blev
voodoo-dronning af New Orleans, en eftertragtet titel. Hun blev, rent
faktisk, New Orleans' mest inflydelsesrige kvinde.
Marie Laveau trak sig tilbage i
1875 og døde i stilhed i 1881. Men en ny voodoo-dronning
overtog hendes post, en voodoo-dronning, som ikke blot lignede hende,
men også kunne, hvad hun kunne. Hun var ligeledes kendt som
Marie Laveau, men hed i virkeligheden Marie Laveau Clapion og var
født i 1827, et af Marie Laveaus femten børn.
Marie Laveau Clapion fik aldrig
den samme opmærksomhed som sin mor, men var populær
blandt de trofaste følgere. Hun druknede i en storm i Lake
Pontchartrain i 1897. |
Voodoo queen Marie Laveau is
buried in Saint Louis #1. What many people don't know is that she was
really two people, mother and daughter.
The older Marie Laveau was
mulatto, born in New Orleans about 1794. Her husband, Jacques Paris,
disappeared for unknown reasons, after which she began to call
herself "widow."
Marie Laveau was a hairdresser,
and the women would tell her all their dreams and their problems.
Marie would help them using the voodoo she had learned as a child
among the blacks of Louisiana, and she had a reputation for being good.
In 1826 Marie Laveau got
together with Louis Christopher Duminy de Clapion, with whom she had
fifteen children over a relatively short period, although they never
married. It was after his death she decided to devote herself
completely to her voodoo carreer, combining it with Catholicism to
become voodoo queen of New Orleans, a much coveted title. She became,
in fact, the most influential woman in New Orleans.
Marie Laveau retired in 1875 and
passed away quietly in 1881. But a new voodoo-queen replaced her, one
who not only resembled her, but who could do all the things she did.
She was also known as Marie Laveau, but her name was Marie Laveau
Clapion and she was born in 1827, one of Marie Laveau's fifteen children.
Marie Laveau Clapion never
achieved the noteriety her mother did, but she was popular among her
followers. She drowned in a storm in Lake Pontchartrain in 1897. |
