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Who was the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans?  And how did she get there?

Join us as we uncover the history Marie Laveau, arguably the most famous voodoo priestess in New Orleans history.  Take a trip back in time to pre-civil war Louisiana and explore the psyche and origins of Marie, voodoo, and the stories that remain.  

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Intro by FSM Team & ESCP, and Outro by Alex productions. Transitional music by Justin Allen.  

Sources used in research:

https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/1609

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Laveau

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/marie-laveau-s-husband-disappeared-200-years-ago-but-an-lsu-student-thinks-she-finally/article_1dfbca9c-ba4b-11eb-87a4-330e11b1b903.html

https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/epigenetics-and-the-black-experience

https://www.marie-laveaux.com/birth-of-a-queen-1.html

https://www.controverscial.com/Marie%20Laveau.htm

https://allpoetry.com/Marie-Laveau

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vodou

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/01/31/are-religious-people-happier-healthier-our-new-global-study-explores-this-question/

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Welcome to the first episode of the Problem with Living Podcast, where we will explore the problems of living faced by the infamous Lizzie Borden.  Together we will explore the psyche and humanity of Lizzie, and attempt to uncover the answer to the one of the many questions that has alluded historians and researchers: who was the real Lizzie Borden, and how did she become the hatchet-wielding killer that history remembers?

Sources consulted in the research for this show are as follows:

https://www.famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1437-home

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5675073/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5675073/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lizzie-Borden-American-murder-suspect

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asylum/202409/lizzie-borden-and-victorian-madness

Intro Music by FSM Team & ESCP

Outro Music by Alex Productions

Transition Music by Scott Buckley

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