Halloween Folklore...

I am one of the many that went to visit that! It was fun, kind creepy (most of LA is in it's own spooky way) and I enjoy it much, especially around this time of year! I love all the scary folklore and such that comes with halloween! Unlike most people, that's our favorite time of year to go to New Orleans - do the haunted tour thing instead of mardi gras. We also like to drive around to the other haunted places and try to get a glimpse ofa ghost (we are far too old to trick or treat now, so I guess that's what we do instead, like a tradition) You can find all kinds of cool stuff just using google.

I lived down in Louisiana for about a year and a half during high school. I lived in bayou country and let me tell you those folks still believe she has powers to heal. I admire her story. A lot of the myth and legend has grown exaggerated through out time as myths have a way of doing. Her story is a very interesting one. Full of culture and history. I can also attest to the fact that people truly bring her offerings and light candles, I have seen it and actually participated in a séance at her grave side during that year I lived there. We were so silly and frightened. Of course the ghost of Marie Laveau never appeared to us, but we sure had fun:))

I am a child of God and I do not indulge in any of this kind of thing. I guess everyone has their likes and dislikes, but to me, it is nonsense.

I have heard of this song. It is as old as the hill. My grandmother told me the story when I was young. I did not know there was really a grave in Louisiana. There is always a little trueth to all folklor that you hear. I love the story or song what ever it was. I think it was a song. Marie Laveaux sounds like a really bad lady and I would not want to cross her either. I think if I lived in Louisiana I would leave gifts too because I need all the blessing I can get. I really do not believe in Voodoo but I know some people do. The black magic is something that you need to believe in for it to really work. thanks for reminding me about this story.

That sounds so wonderful...I like that kind of folklore too. Being that this woman, Marie Laveau was from Louisiana, I can't help if her legend and story was the inspiration for some of Anne Rice's books...like the Mayfair Witches, that began in her book The Witching Hour--she too comes from Louisiana as you might know

I love all kinds of folkore, and I've read a lot of fiction about bayou country. I find it all kind of foreign and dark and mysterious, mostly because I've never been there!

Louisiana almost seems like another country to me, because of the French culture and patois. I'd love to spend some time there soaking up the history.

Ha ha, i always liked that song...I was born in Louisana,and i guess you can consider me cajan...There is a lot of voodoo down there in the swamps,i do not deny that..rather it is true or not is all up to the people who believe....There is true witches,i do know that and they do have some power..They have some called white witches and they are the good witches......they have all kinds of spells and you can read about them,some can tell the future......I do believe that...

I wanted to do the Marie Leveaux tour when we were in New Orleans but we didnt have time and it was rainy most of the time we were there. We did get a chance to do the walking ghost tour which was pretty fun. I don't know if it was the drinks we had at the pub before we went on the tour or what, but we had fun hahaha!

The most I have done is drive throug Louisiana, but this is cool.

It is things like this that makes our culture so rich, all of the stuff that America has and we can share it so easily.

Thanks for this!

Oh, twoey, LMAO! I just love it! If I had a printer I would have run myself off a copy or two of that song. Strangely, it seems familiar to me-like I've heard it before. I think that nearly everyone has heard stories about the infamous Marie Laveau. I do read a lot of material set in that part of the country. For some reason I have long been attracted to Louisiana. Who knows why?