The History of Marie Laveau + 9 Voodoo Paranormal Books

Who was Marie Laveau + books and show where you can see her or voodoo in action.

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Voodoo Priestess and legend Marie Laveau’s name pops up frequently in paranormal romance and urban fantasy. Maybe she is the villain of the piece with her dark magics and control of the dead, or maybe she isn’t someone so easily defined. Either way she is always powerful, a creature with whom one does not fuck. But who was she in real life?

The History of Marie Laveau

Marie Catherine Laveau was born on September 10, 1801 in New Orleans. She married in 1819 to Jacques Paris, who died a year later. In the mid 1820s she then entered a placage, a kind of betrothal/marriage, with Louis Christophe Dominick Duminy de Glapion who she then had children with. There seems to be many tales about what Marie Laveau did, some say she was a liquor importer, a hairdresser, a blackmailer and maybe even a Madame in a brothel.