Living the High Priestess Life with Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau

Season 5, Episode 250,   Jan 01, 01:16 PM

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

In the Crescent City resided a woman that many loved, some feared and all respected. Marie Laveau helped many during hard times with her voodoo practices.

CREDITS:

Cover photo is not my own. I found it on Wikimedia Commons:

St. Louis Cemetery #1, New Orleans. Tomb of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau. Visitors with certain beliefs make "X"s on the tomb in the belief that this will give them supernatural help, despite that this is discouraged by the keepers of the historic cemetery.

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Intro song courtesy of Bobby Mackey

This episode is dedicated to Princess = the Great Pyrenees, and Goldie = the Orange Tabby Cat, who traveled the Rainbow Bridge together.

Story Blocks :

Southern Discomfort

Louisiana Bayou

July Morning Blues

Louisiana Swamp

Louisiana 1800s (Mountain Dulcimer)

PIXABAY :

Bring Out Your Dead - funeral procession sadness grief mourning hiphop

Witches Cauldron

OPENING/CLOSING POEMS : 

ChatGPT

Tessa’s own recordings:

Baby Laughter

READ BOOK INSERTS :

“Spirits of New Orleans” by Kala Ambrose

“New Orleans Ghosts” by Victor Klein