Marie Laveau was a 19th century practioner of Voodoo in New Orleans. Professionally, her occupation was as a hairdresser but she was was also a healer, midwife, and respected member of the community. Today, people continue to leave offerings at her tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1.
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Milford Street 
Nice memorial idea
It is pretty cool.
How interesting! I’ll bet there are stories . . .
There are whole tours you can take dedicated to her. We got a bit of history on her during a more general tour we took.
I’m starting to think a road trip to The Big Easy might be in order! (I’ve been there once, when I was five, and I remember the visit as depressing and weird; there was family drama involved.)
Family drama will make anyplace depressing and weird. It’s worth a visit. A few days is sufficient.
I used to watch NCIS: New Orleans just for the scenery and the music. Until they took off two of my favorite characters….
I watched it a few times. It was good. Sorry to hear they ruined it for you. New Orleans does have great scenery.
I’ve been to that tomb a few times. The gates to the cemetery were always left open and anyone could just walk in, but of course tourist started doing stupid things. Like vandalizing it and stuff. The city was talking about locking the place and charging admission to cut down on it. I’m not sure if they ever did it.
You can’t go in alone, now. You have to go in with a tour. It’s a pretty cool place. They have to regulate the number of people in there at one time.
Ah, ok. I knew they were talking about doing something like that. I don’t live too far from there. About a 10 minute drive, but across the river. I hardly ever go in that area.
Also, be careful what tour guide you use if you come down here! https://www.fox8live.com/2020/01/15/nopd-man-shot-french-quarter/
Fortunately, we had a different guide.
I like your offering to her in the form of a photo.
Ah, thank you. I also left two coins. Just in case there is anything to Voodoo.
Okay – at first I thought ‘Aah! Voodoo!’ But knowing that she also was a hairdresser, healer and midwive makes her less scary. 😉 And how nice that people still visit her grave and leave offerings. 😊
So interesting! I imagine she played a very important part in community.
She did. She was a hairdresser and knew veryone and just about everything.