Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau - Revised; Burning Candles, Use of Roots and Oils Powders and Incenses; Significance of Cards; Horoscope with Lucky Days and Lucky Numbers; Guide to Spiritualists, Mediums, and Readers. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Black and White Magic of Marie Laveau - Revised; Burning Candles, Use of Roots and Oils Powders and Incenses; Significance of Cards; Horoscope with Lucky Days and Lucky Numbers; Guide to Spiritualists, Mediums, and Readers

8vo; 64 pages; Contents clean and complete in original printed green wrappers; wrappers age toned. Signed in type, p. 3: Bivins, N.D.P. No publication information printed. OCLC locates only two copies - one in the Historic New Orleans Collection and the second in the Doe Library at University of California Berkeley. Contains a number of spells, how to tell fortunes, etc. Though undated, this edition probably dates from the 1960s or early 1970s (preceding the reprint by Bombay Publishing Company in 1975). Marie Catherine Laveau (1801 â" 1881) was a Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voodoo, an herbalist, and a midwife who was renowned in New Orleans. Marie Catherine Laveau was born a free woman of color in New Orleans's French Quarter, Louisiana. On August 4, 1819, she married Jacques Paris (also known as Santiago Paris in Spanish records), a free man of color who was among the thousands of à migrà s from Saint-Domingue to New Orleans in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. She was the third female leader of Voodoo in New Orleans (the first was Sanità Dà dà , who ruled for a few years before being usurped by Marie Saloppà ), a New Orleans voodoo "queen", or priestess. Zora Neale Hurston describing a record of 30 consultations with Laveau in her 1931 essay, âHoodoo In Americaâ, and Laveau is discussed at length in Hurston's 1935 book Mules and Men. Hurston interviewed and studied under hoodoo doctor Luke Turner, who identified himself as the Laveau's grandnephew.…