Описание: Legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church.In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths and complete fabrication, Carolyn Morrow Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau s African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans."
Автор: Long Carolyn Morrow Название: The Tomb of Marie Laveau: In St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 ISBN: 0692766863 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692766866 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic Church.In separating verifiable fact from semi-truths and complete fabrication, Carolyn Morrow Long explores the unique social, political, and legal setting in which the lives of Laveau's African and European ancestors became intertwined in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
The classic book on legends, lore, and unvarnished truths surrounding New Orleans' most famous Voodoo mistress-now in a modern, legible format. It also features other tales from surrounding parishes of days long gone by, an illustrated guide to palm-reading, humorous asides, and over 30 fascinating drawings and images.
In addition to facts and folklore about Laveau-including revealing research into some debunked myths and unanswered questions-the book offers entertaining stories of her life and the people around the New Orleans area, such as:
- Lafayette's visit to New Orleans . . . and to Marie Laveau herself? - How Marie Laveau turned hate into love for some wishful suitors - How she earned her free house on St. Ann Street, and how her death made city newspapers go wild - The man with two wives-in two languages-and therefore a roosterhead in his coatpocket - Why New Orleans doorsteps are so clean - How an utter idiot won the election for mayor of Burley Landing - The proper use of gris gris, and the meaning of palm mountains and lines - How an honest thief fooled an unsuspecting Yankee - Why zombies are created to be used as farmhands
This book is presented in a quality new edition with all the illustrations from the original properly presented, as well as additional images found only in the Quaint Press edition of this well-known look into the folklore of old New Orleans.
Автор: Laveau-Harvie, Vicki Название: Erratics, The ISBN: 0385695284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385695282 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1559.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In this award-winning memoir, two sisters reckon with the convalescence and death of their outlandishly tyrannical mother and the care of their psychologically terrorized father, all relayed with dark humour and brutal honesty. When Vicki and her sister learn their mother has been hospitalized for a broken hip, they return to their parents' home in Alberta to put things back in order. Though their parents disowned them years before, the sisters now reassert themselves in the dysfunctional household: their father, undernourished and suffering from Stockholm syndrome, is unable to see that he is in danger from his outlandish and vindictive wife. Rearranging their lives to be the daughters they were never allowed to be, the sisters focus their efforts on helping their father cope with the unending manipulations of their mother, and must encounter all the characters common in the circus of caretaking--oddball nurses and home helpers; over-opinionated hospital staff who have fallen for their mother's compulsive lies--along with the pressures that come with caring for elderly loved (and sometimes unloved) ones. Set against the natural world of remotest Alberta (in winter the cold will kill you, nothing personal), this memoir--at once dark and hopeful--shatters precedents about grief, anger and family trauma with surprising tenderness and humour.
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