On Thursday night, over 150 people dressed in white are expected to gather on the Magnolia Bridge over Bayou St. John around a sculpture of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau. There they'll join a head-washing ...

Before the St. John’s Eve Voodoo ceremony got started, priestess Sallie Ann Glassman alerted the crowd of 100-plus along Bayou St. John to the possibility that someone could become possessed by a ...

Poor New Orleans. For all the misfortune that has befallen The Big Easy and the white sand Cajun coast, they can blame it on Mother Nature -- La Nina. They can blame the Republican president or the ...

Many songs tell of legendary figures, but the jaunty country tune “Marie Laveau” is more of a cautionary tale than a heroic epic. In the song’s meaning lies arguably the sagest advice: When you run ...

Alvarado (Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints) draws inspiration from 19th-century “Voudou Queen” Marie Laveau (1801–1881) for an eclectic mix of spells, rituals, and general wisdom for ...

Early Monday morning, on May 19, the house of New Orleans Voodoo queen Marie Laveau went up in flames. The fire had broken out in the kitchen, and firefighters arrived on the scene around 4 a.m. The ...

A painting sold for almost $1 million - more than twice the expected price - at a recent art auction. If you saw it, you might recognize it as a painting widely advertised as a portrait of Marie ...