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Louisiana Voodoo, also known as New Orleans Voodoo is a term that is used for a form of the Voodoo spirituality which historically developed within the French- and Louisiana Creole French-speaking African-American population of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
An oft-mentioned historical figure in Louisiana Voodoo is Marie Laveau.
Louisiana Voodoo is often confused with - but is not completely separable from - Haitian Vodou and southeastern U.S. hoodoo. While it generally shares the same loa as Haitian Vodou, it lays a generally greater emphasis upon folk magic (as does hoodoo). This emphasis has become a spiritocultural marker for southern, Francophone Louisiana within the Western media, as it was through Louisiana Voodoo that such terms as gris-gris and voodoo dolls were introduced into the American lexicon.
In modern times, it has faced substantial derision from the Protestant Christian contingent of southern Louisiana's African-American population, as voodoo and folk magic have been portrayed as both evil and Satanic.
With the destruction wrought on New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands of individuals, including many Louisiana Voodoo practitioners, were driven to many different parts of the United States.[1]