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New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum

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New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
Phone:
+1 504-680-0128

Hours:
Sunday10am - 6pm
Monday10am - 6pm
Tuesday10am - 6pm
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


Louisiana Voodoo, also known as New Orleans Voodoo, describes a set of spiritual folkways developed from the traditions of the African diaspora. It is a cultural form of the Afro-American religions developed by West and Central Africans populations of the U.S. state of Louisiana, though its practitioners are not exclusively of African-American descent. Voodoo is one of many incarnations of African-based spiritual folkways rooted in West African Dahomeyan Vodun. Its liturgical language is Louisiana Creole French, the language of the Louisiana Creole people. Voodoo became syncretized with the Catholic and Francophone culture of New Orleans as a result of the African cultural oppression in the region resulting from the Atlantic slave trade. Louisiana Voodoo is often confused with—but is not completely separable from—Haitian Vodou and Deep Southern Hoodoo. It differs from Haitian Vodou in its emphasis upon gris-gris, Voodoo queens, use of Hoodoo paraphernalia, and Li Grand Zombi. It was through Louisiana Voodoo that such terms as gris-gris and Voodoo dolls' were introduced into the American lexicon.
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