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Book Review


A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau. By Carolyn Morrow Long. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006, xl, 294 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8130-2974-0.)
Carolyn Morrow Long undertakes here a detailed review of the documented facts of the life of Marie Laveau, celebrated in local lore as a powerful priestess of the Voudou cult, and offers reflections on her successor, "Marie II." Limitations of sources make this a daunting task. Laveau was illiterate, and, apart from parish and municipal records, only indirect and often biased sources are available—journalistic accounts, popular histories, oral folklore, fictionalized reconstructions, and the often contradictory testimonies of those interviewed by the fieldworkers of the Louisiana Writers' Project (1935–1943). . . .
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