Voodoo in New Orleans: The Bizarre Practices of a Strange and Living Cult - from Africa to Practices of the Present Day

New York: Collier Books, 1974. ....# 001244 - 253 clean pages, tight clean and square, faint readers crease, former owners name on inside front cover, and two minor spots of marker on ffep. "The author traces the history of Voodoo from its origins with the snake worshipers of Africa through its heyday in nineteenth-century New Orleans to the flourishing practices of the present day. The truths and the legends, handed down from generation to generation, are all here - Marie Laveau the Voodoo Queen, the sensual Voodoo dances, the Gris-Gris, the crosses of death, the black candles, and the love potions and lodestones. Mr. Tallant has overlooked nothing in weaving this spellbinding tale of the strange religion still practiced in the dark of night in New Orleans - and elsewhere." Contents include: This is the way it Was / Evolution / Li Grand Zombi / The Goat without Horns / Skin a Black Cat with Your Teeth / Doctor John / Some Were Evil / Marie Laveau / Marie the Magnificent / Sometimes she Danced with a Fish / She Brought Them Gumbo and a Coffin / They All Dance Naked As Jaybirds / She Kept Skeletons in Her Armoire / C'est I'Amour, Manan! / Doctor Jim / Marie the Sainted / Knock on My Tonbstone / The Power Divided / Love Story / This Is the Way It Is / You Gotta Be Opened / The Saint from Chicago / Lala / The Queen of Perdido Street / Snakes Jumped Out of Her Mouth / Coffins on Your Doorstep / Easy Love and Easy Money / Medicated Magic / Murder! / The People Know the Signs / Bibliograpohy. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo. 7th Printing. Paperback. Very Good Plus.