Dark Enigma - The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans

Renegade Talk Radio

Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the weird, wonderful, unexplained, eerie, scary and down-right unbelievable. There will be tales of ghosts, murder, supernatural beings and unexplained mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, relax and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma.... And on today’s Dark enigma we’re going to be exploring another witchy story, because as you know, it’s Witchtober! And we can’t do Witchtober without our next story, but it’s a surprise… anyways, As always, we will be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. I will leave the choice of witch’s brew up to you, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say Voodoo that will be a single shot and every time I say New Orleans, that’s a double shot. Have you guessed who today’s show is about yet? No? really? Arighty then, now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… and the story of… the Voodoo Queen herself, Marie Laveau… let’s jump into it heathens… Marie Laveau (1794?–1881) and Marie Laveau Glapion(1827–1877) were the most famous voodoo queens, mother and daughter by the same name, reigned over New Orleans in the late 19th century, and in death are believed to haunt the city still. Their lives have become legend. Marie Laveau I reputedly was born in New Orleans in 1794, the illegitimate daughter of Charles Laveau and Margeurite Carcantel. A mulatto of mixed black, white and Indian race, she was from birth a free woman of color. As a young woman, she was tall and statuesque, with curling black hair, flashing black eyes, reddish skin and “good” features, meaning more white than Negroid. On August 4, 1819 she married Jacques Paris, a quadroon (three-fourths white, one-fourth black) free man of color from Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). They lived in a house in the 1900 block of North Rampart Street that had been given to them by Charles Laveau as part of his daughter’s dowry.