Welcome to the History Tricks where any resemblance to a boring old history

lesson is purely coincidental. And here's your 30-second summary. Oh here's one to

keep your boss from firing you. Write his name on a piece of paper, bury it in

your backyard with a chopped up red candle and a black cat's tail. How to keep

your boss from firing you. Quit! I don't need no stinkin' Marie Levoqueurs.

The end. Let's talk about Marie Levo, the voodoo queen of New Orleans. But first let's

drop her into history. In 1794 the US flag was changed to 15 stripes and 15 stars.

Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. The Louvre is open to the public.

Our old friend, Catherine the Great, allowed Jewish people to settle in Kiev and composer

Ferdinand Schubert and Richmeen Cornelius Vanderbilt were both born. In 1801 Thomas Jefferson

became the third president of the United States. The first census of Great Britain counted

approximately 10 million citizens. The state of Louisiana was under Spanish rule but not for long.

And in 1794 or 1801 voodoo queen and gifted marketer Marie Levoque is born in New Orleans.

Marie Levoque was likely born on September 16th 1801 although accounts do vary. She was the

daughter of Margarit D'Argental, free woman of color and Charles Levoque or free man of color.

Though it must be stated that many histories you read will tell you that Marie's father was a

white man even so far as that he was a member of the state legislature. Not true her birth year

is given in other places as 1794 or 1796 like Marie Antoinette's family in a slightly slightly

earlier time frame. Many many girls in this family were given the first name Marie to honor the

Virgin Mary. Our Marie actually had an older half sister named Marie Louise. A younger half

sister named Marie Dolos Dolores and a stepmother named Marie Francois you could just cry trying

to sort everybody out. No kidding her father and her mother were not married. Okay so let's just say

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