Marie Laveau

In the middle of the 19th century, Marie Laveau used to practice voodoo, and to this day her grave is considered one of the most fearsome places in New Orleans. It is said that his ghost constantly appears in that place.

Marie Catherine Laveau, (September 10, 1794, New Orleans - June 16, 1881). She was an African-American woman, a renowned voodoo practitioner, in New Orleans.
Marie Laveau was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, daughter of wealthy white landowner Charles Laveau and mulatto Darcental Marguetto.

She was a young beauty, with black hair, dark skin and piercing eyes. He liked to cover his hair with a cap made of brightly colored cloth. He married a free African-American, Jacques Paris, an immigrant from Haiti.1 As both were Catholics, they were married in the Cathedral of St. Louis. But at the same time it is said that both practiced voodoo.

Her husband, Jacques Paris, passed away in 1820 under circumstances that have not been clarified. It was part of a large Haitian immigration to New Orleans, in 1809, after the Haitian revolution of 1804. The economy fell sharply due to the lack of work on the plantations, without the support of the slaves (despite various attempts to reactivate it through work forced paid) of both French-speaking white immigrants, thousands of slaves, and also free African-Americans.

Marie liked to say that she was the "Parisian Widow." 2 After this, she openly began to practice voodoo and managed to attract and influence many wealthy white women from New Orleans, her power and her fame grew. Then he had a lover named Christophe Louis Dumesnil of Glapion, with whom he lived in a common law marriage until his death in 1835. Christophe Louis also died in mysterious and unknown ways.