What is Marie Laveau?
{{Infobox person | name = Marie Laveau | image = | caption = | birth_name = Marie Catherine Laveau | birth_date = {{Birth date|1801|09|10}} | birth_place = [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana (New France)]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1881|06|15|1801|09|10}} | death_place = [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]], U.S. | nationality = American | occupation = Occultist, voodoo priestess, midwife, nurse, herbalist | known_for = Voodoo Queen of New Orleans | spouse = Jacques Paris, Christophe Glapion | parents = [[Charles LaVeau]] and Marguerite Henry (known as D'Arcantel) }} '''Marie Catherine Laveau''' (September 10, 1801 – June 15, 1881) was a [[Louisiana]] practitioner of [[voodoo]], [[herbal]]ism and [[midwife]]ry. She was well-known in 19th century New Orleans.<ref>Ward, Martha 2004. ''Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau''. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press. ISBN 1578066298</ref> Her daughter, Marie Laveau II, (1827–c. 1862) also practiced rootwork, conjure, Native American and African spiritualism and Louisiana [[voodoo]]. An alternate spelling of her name, Laveaux, may be from the original French spelling. == References == {{reflist}} {{-}} {{bio-stub}} [[Category:African-American people]] [[Category:Religion in the United States]] [[Category:19th-century American people]] [[Category:Voodoo]]