Pictured: St. Louis Cathedral, Jackson Square
Tour 03 · Walking · Morning
The Voodoo Queen Tour.
Explore Marie Laveau’s story through her original homestead, Congo Square and an authentic voodoo shop.
- Departs
- 11:00 AM
- Length
- 90 minutes
- Meet
- 620 Decatur St
- Format
- Walking
The story
African, Caribbean and Catholic, braided together.
Voodoo came to Louisiana with enslaved West Africans and with Haitian immigrants after the 1791 revolt. Marie Laveau was admired and feared for herbal medicines, midwife services, exorcisms and darker rituals. Rivals who tried to unseat her, the story goes, did not live long.
- Marie Laveau's original homesteadWhere the Voodoo Queen lived.
- Congo Square, Louis Armstrong ParkIn Tremé, the first neighborhood for free people of color, where enslaved people gathered on their day off to trade food, stories and music.
- An authentic voodoo shopThe last stop of the walk.
Where to meet
620 Decatur St, the red-door booth
Outside Landry's Seafood and Bon's New Orleans Street Food, on the corner of Decatur & St. Peter. Prices and seats are shown live on FareHarbor.
Want voodoo after dark?