Compiled by Jason Wiese, Assistant Director, Williams Research Center
POPULAR NON-FICTION
Revised black and white magic: Marie Laveau ; burning of candles, use of roots and oils, powders and incenses; significance of cards, horoscope with lucky days and lucky numbers; guide to spiritualists, mediums, and readers. [S.l.: s.n., 197-?]. Accession 75-280-RL.
Andre Cajun (Andrew Jackson Navard). Louisiana Voodoo. 2nd ed. New Orleans: Harmanson, 1946. Accession 84-890-RL.
Andre Cajun (Andrew Jackson Navard). "Ol' Evil Eye" making voodoo. New Orleans, La.: Cajun Pub. Co., 1946. Accession 85-345-RL.
Raul Canizares. The life and works of Marie Laveau: gris-gris, cleansings, charms,hexes. 1st ed. Plainview, N.Y.:Original Publications,2001. Accession 2002-252-RL.1.
Sallie Ann Glassman. Vodou visions : an encounter with divine mystery. New York: Villard, 2000. Accession 2000-165-RL.2.
James Haskins. Voodoo & hoodoo : their tradition and craft as revealed by actual practitioners. Chelsea, MI: Scarborough House, 1990. Accession 94-694-RL.
Raymond J. Martinez. Mysterious Marie Laveau, voodoo queen; and, Folk Tales along the Mississippi. New Orleans: Harmanson, 1956. Accession 88-231-RL.
Betty L. Morrison. A guide to voodoo in New Orleans, 1820-1940. Gretna, LA: Her Pub. Co., 1977. Accession 82-316-RL.
Mary Alicia Owen, 1858-1935. Voodoo tales as told among the Negroes of the Southwest . New York: Putnam, 1893. Accession 76-1808-RL.
Newbell Niles Puckett. Folk beliefs of the Southern Negro. New York: Dover Publications, [1969]. Accession 71-44-L.1.
Robert Tallant. Voodoo in New Orleans. New York: MacMillan Co., 1946 . Accession 68-29-L.3.
SCHOLARLY BOOKS & ESSAYS
Ron Bodin. Voodoo Past and Present. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1990. Pam BL 2490.B6 1990. Accession 99-16-RL.
Rod Davis. American voudou : journey into a hidden world. Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, 1998. Accession 99-16-RL.
Barbara Rosendale Duggal, "Marie Laveau : the voodoo queen repossessed" in Creole : the history and legacy of Louisiana's free people of color / Sybil Kein (ed.). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Accession 2000-182-RL.2.
Carolyn Morrow Long. A New Orleans voudou priestess: the legend and reality of Marie Laveau. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. Accession 2006.0354.7.
Carolyn Morrow Long. Spiritual merchants : religion, magic, and commerce. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Accession 2001-170-RL.
Jessie Gaston Mulira, "The case of voodoo in New Orleans" in Africanisms in American culture / Joseph E. Holloway (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Accession 93-376-RL.
Julie Yvonne Webb. Superstitious Influence--Voodoo in Particular--Affecting Health Practices in a Selected Population in Southern Louisiana. New Orleans, LA: Julie Yvonne Webb, 1971. Accession 71-39-L.10.
THESES & DISSERTATIONS
Cameron Berube. Female Leadership in New Orleans voodoo. Thesis (B.S.)--Tulane University, 1998. Not at WRC.
Jean-Marc Allard Duplantier. "Nos frères d'outre-golfe": spiritualism, voudou and the mimetic literatures of Haiti and Louisiana. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 2006. Accession 2008.0202.8.
Ina Johanna Fandrich. The mysterious Voodoo Queen Marie Laveaux : a study of power and female leadership in nineteenth-century New Orleans. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Temple University, 1994. Accession 99-217-RL.35.
Bobby Joe Neeley. Contemporary Afro-American Voodooism (Black religion) : the retention and adaption of the ancient African-Egyptian mystery system. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1988. Accession 91-639-RL.
Bryan M. Ott. Voodoo in New Orleans 1990: contemporary beliefs and ritual practices. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1991. Not at WRC.
Caroline Senter. Beware of premature autopsies: Hoodoo in New Orleans literature. Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, Department of Literature, 1991. Accession 92-310-RL.
Rachelle Sussman. Conjuring Marie Laveau: the syncretic life of a nineteenth century Voodoo priestess in America. Thesis (M.A.)--Sarah Lawrence College, 1998. Not at WRC.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
John Q. Anderson, "The New Orleans voodoo ritual dance and its twentieth-century survivals." Southern Folklore Quarterly, vol. xxiv, June 1960.
Hans A. Baer. "Toward a Systematic Typology of Black Folk Healers." Phylon (1960-), Vol. 43, No. 4 (4th Qtr., 1982), pp. 327-343.
Ina J. Fandrich. "The Birth of New Orleans' Voodoo Queen: A Long-Held Mystery Resolved." Louisiana History, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Summer, 2005), pp. 293-309.
Ina J. Fandrich. "Yorùbá Influences on Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo." Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 37, No. 5 (May., 2007), pp. 775-791 .
Claude F. Jacobs. "Folk for Whom? Tourist Guidebooks, Local Color, and the Spiritual Churches of New Orleans." The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 114, No. 453 (Summer, 2001), pp. 309-330.
Carolyn Morrow Long. "Marie Laveau: A Nineteenth-Century Voudou Priestess." Louisiana History, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Summer, 2005), pp. 262-292.
Carolyn Morrow Long. "Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo: Sin, Fraud, Entertainment, and Religion."
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 6, No. 1 (October 2002), pp. 86-101.
W. W. Newell. "Reports of Voodoo Worship in Hayti and Louisiana." The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Jan. - Mar., 1889), pp. 41-47.
Hilda Roberts. "Louisiana Superstitions." The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 40, No. 156 (Apr. - Jun., 1927), pp. 144-208.
Rocky Sexton. "Cajun and Creole Treaters: Magico-Religious Folk Healing in French Louisiana." Western Folklore, Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (Jul. - Oct., 1992), pp. 237-248.
Loudell F. Snow. "Mail Order Magic: The Commercial Exploitation of Folk Belief." Journal of the Folklore Institute, Vol. 16, No. 1/2 (Jan. - Aug., 1979), pp. 44-74.
Blake Touchstone. "Voodoo in New Orleans." Louisiana History Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn 1972), pp. 371-86.
Stephen C. Wehmeyer. "Indian Altars of the Spiritual Church: Kongo Echoes in New Orleans." African Arts, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 62-69+95-96.
POPULAR FICTION
Berthe Amoss. The chalk cross. New York: Seabury Press, 1976. Accession 78-462-RL.
Berthe Amoss. The witch cat. New Orleans: Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans, 1977. Accession 78-427-RL.
Nemours Henry Nune. Chien negre: a tale of the vaudoux. Aurora, Mo.: Burney brothers publishing co., [1938]. Accession 91-299-RL.
Jewell Parker Rhodes. Voodoo dreams: a novel of Marie Laveau. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Accession 93-526-RL.
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