How Locals Blamed Voodoo For One Louisiana Hurricane
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Chassity
Thanks for speaking facts on this. Whenever we have a hurricane down here, we think of spirits or that our African ancestors are punishing the world for their enslavement. My family on my paternal pawpaw side originated from Europe and settled in NOLA, before spreading to Vacherie. Both my families on my mom's side originated from NOLA. They all are superstitious and so am i. That; s just part of our culture. Especially, our Black and French-Creole culture. I believe my dad's father family had Voodoo Priestesses in the family. But Voodoo is real and not to played with that's all I can tell you. Some of the old Black folks will still sit on their porches and sign old tales, But they always be right in what they sung. I can visibly remember one of my elder cousins on mom's side sitting on her shotgun house's porch (the house was built during slavery) with her rag and cane knife, always signing in a language I didn't understand. But I knew someone bad was coming whenever she did this. It's kind of cool, but scary the things she used to predict. Even whenever we get bad thunderstorms we know someone is about to die or has died. Or our surgical scars will start to hurt/itch (mines still does it. Hope I didn't scare anyone. Just happy someone actually looked into the origin of Voodoo, etc. Also, I love the way the narrator pronounces New Orleans. Just which he had our accent.
P. S. I and some of my family members don't practice Voodoo/Black Magic.
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Thanks for speaking facts on this. Whenever we have a hurricane down here, we think of spirits or that our African ancestors are punishing the world for their enslavement. My family on my paternal pawpaw side originated from Europe and settled in NOLA, before spreading to Vacherie. Both my families on my mom's side originated from NOLA. They all are superstitious and so am i. That; s just part of our culture. Especially, our Black and French-Creole culture. I believe my dad's father family had Voodoo Priestesses in the family. But Voodoo is real and not to played with that's all I can tell you. Some of the old Black folks will still sit on their porches and sign old tales, But they always be right in what they sung. I can visibly remember one of my elder cousins on mom's side sitting on her shotgun house's porch (the house was built during slavery) with her rag and cane knife, always signing in a language I didn't understand. But I knew someone bad was coming whenever she did this. It's kind of cool, but scary the things she used to predict. Even whenever we get bad thunderstorms we know someone is about to die or has died. Or our surgical scars will start to hurt/itch (mines still does it. Hope I didn't scare anyone. Just happy someone actually looked into the origin of Voodoo, etc. Also, I love the way the narrator pronounces New Orleans. Just which he had our accent.
P. S. I and some of my family members don't practice Voodoo/Black Magic.
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Jade
ive been doing hoodoo my whole life. its beautiful and i love it. voodoo, hoodoo, santeria etc get a bad rep from movies and stuff, making it out to be evil and whatnot. i wish more people took the time to respect others beliefs/religions instead of vilifying them. just because you dont understand or arent familiar with it, doesnt make it evil. and lots of people perform hoodoo practices or superstitions with out even realizing it. if youve ever thrown salt over your shoulder, if you dont split poles while walking with someone, if your mom/grandma ever told you to keep your purse off the ground or youll go broke, you ever said my palms are itchy cause youre expecting money, if you dont let the broom touch your feet, if you dont throw your hair from the brush away in the trash, etc. welcome to hoodoo lol
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ive been doing hoodoo my whole life. its beautiful and i love it. voodoo, hoodoo, santeria etc get a bad rep from movies and stuff, making it out to be evil and whatnot. i wish more people took the time to respect others beliefs/religions instead of vilifying them. just because you dont understand or arent familiar with it, doesnt make it evil. and lots of people perform hoodoo practices or superstitions with out even realizing it. if youve ever thrown salt over your shoulder, if you dont split poles while walking with someone, if your mom/grandma ever told you to keep your purse off the ground or youll go broke, you ever said my palms are itchy cause youre expecting money, if you dont let the broom touch your feet, if you dont throw your hair from the brush away in the trash, etc. welcome to hoodoo lol
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John
Im a 50 year old Florida native. Ive been through 5 hurricanes so far, yet not a single one has been a direct hit like Louisiana gets every 15 years or so. Our power goes out for a while, sometimes for 2 weeks. Our yards get flooded and trees fall, but somehow our houses make it through the storms. I truly feel for the folks in Louisiana and Mississippi who are devastated by these hurricanes.
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Im a 50 year old Florida native. Ive been through 5 hurricanes so far, yet not a single one has been a direct hit like Louisiana gets every 15 years or so. Our power goes out for a while, sometimes for 2 weeks. Our yards get flooded and trees fall, but somehow our houses make it through the storms. I truly feel for the folks in Louisiana and Mississippi who are devastated by these hurricanes.
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Alicia
Loved this one, especially being someone from NOLA. Driving up I10 to 55 toward Baton Rouge, just about 20mins north of New Orleans, you pass the swamps that used to be Ruddock. Its all bridge over swampland for several miles before finally seeing the famous Middendorfs restaurant. I can only imagine what life was like for people settling in those swamps. Its so creepy, and beautiful.
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Loved this one, especially being someone from NOLA. Driving up I10 to 55 toward Baton Rouge, just about 20mins north of New Orleans, you pass the swamps that used to be Ruddock. Its all bridge over swampland for several miles before finally seeing the famous Middendorfs restaurant. I can only imagine what life was like for people settling in those swamps. Its so creepy, and beautiful.
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4721ArcherSuh
Fun fact: In the entirety of George Romero's Living Dead pentalogy, the word zombie is only said once. In a nice, little moment during Land of the Dead (the forth film, the camera briefly passes a puppet show as an off-screen puppeteer jovially yells, Take that, you smelly zombie! and the puppeteer was played by George Romero.
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Fun fact: In the entirety of George Romero's Living Dead pentalogy, the word zombie is only said once. In a nice, little moment during Land of the Dead (the forth film, the camera briefly passes a puppet show as an off-screen puppeteer jovially yells, Take that, you smelly zombie! and the puppeteer was played by George Romero.
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YourMomDotCom
I wanna hear Weird History's take on the Rajneeshees, the group covered by the Wild Wild Country documentary.
I lived in the town they poisoned in the 80's when I was a kid. First biological terror attack in US history. It was a weird couple of years to grow up around. And they're sorta around to this day.
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I wanna hear Weird History's take on the Rajneeshees, the group covered by the Wild Wild Country documentary.
I lived in the town they poisoned in the 80's when I was a kid. First biological terror attack in US history. It was a weird couple of years to grow up around. And they're sorta around to this day.
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Col
We can look at this and think they didn't know better back then, ofcourse they'd attribute magic to things they couldn't explain.
then i realise it's 2021 and people still believe in ghosts, witchcraft, astrology, psychics, healing crystals, homeopathy and gODS, and i weep for humanity.
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We can look at this and think they didn't know better back then, ofcourse they'd attribute magic to things they couldn't explain.
then i realise it's 2021 and people still believe in ghosts, witchcraft, astrology, psychics, healing crystals, homeopathy and gODS, and i weep for humanity.
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Jo5ue1
Very interesting as an outsider, not a NOLA native it was shocking to learn that there are so many cultural practices in New Orleans that come out of Voodoo that people are not aware of. I also learned that the New Orleans Saints also represent Voodoo Saints, very interesting.
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Very interesting as an outsider, not a NOLA native it was shocking to learn that there are so many cultural practices in New Orleans that come out of Voodoo that people are not aware of. I also learned that the New Orleans Saints also represent Voodoo Saints, very interesting.
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education
I LOVE THIS! I am a proud to be a Creole girl whos family openly practiced Vodo My grandfather was born in 1911 in New Orleans and his father the from Haiti born in the 1860s and Im only 35! Lol I feel so close to stories like this Please keep doing more stories like this!
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I LOVE THIS! I am a proud to be a Creole girl whos family openly practiced Vodo My grandfather was born in 1911 in New Orleans and his father the from Haiti born in the 1860s and Im only 35! Lol I feel so close to stories like this Please keep doing more stories like this!
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Can'O
10: 06
Just off the left of this picture is my favorite convenience store called A&M and across the street is a Cajun Kitchen restaurant.
Grab some DELICIOUS FOODS then walk across to A&M and get some great priced Beers.
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10: 06
Just off the left of this picture is my favorite convenience store called A&M and across the street is a Cajun Kitchen restaurant.
Grab some DELICIOUS FOODS then walk across to A&M and get some great priced Beers.
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Dora_the_
Are we so sure that voodoo didn't cause it? I mean come on dude. Maybe God said oh y'all want to partake in evil stuff? I will destroy. I say could be possible because God has done stuff like this many times in the past.
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Are we so sure that voodoo didn't cause it? I mean come on dude. Maybe God said oh y'all want to partake in evil stuff? I will destroy. I say could be possible because God has done stuff like this many times in the past.
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Support
Would love to visit there and a few other haunted places in new Orleans that I heard about. Can you please do a top 10 of haunted places in new Orleans in one of your next Videos please? There is plenty to pick from there.
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Would love to visit there and a few other haunted places in new Orleans that I heard about. Can you please do a top 10 of haunted places in new Orleans in one of your next Videos please? There is plenty to pick from there.
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Ryan
It's Ru-dock. That's how you pronounce that town name not ruddock. And that area is still the middle of no where lol I'm from about 35 miles north of that area. They have good fishing in that area.
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It's Ru-dock. That's how you pronounce that town name not ruddock. And that area is still the middle of no where lol I'm from about 35 miles north of that area. They have good fishing in that area.
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mandapanda06
Im Louisiana through and through. I was born, raised, and still live here (Im 34) and I have never heard about her/this story! BTY Props to pronouncing these locations the right way lol.
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Im Louisiana through and through. I was born, raised, and still live here (Im 34) and I have never heard about her/this story! BTY Props to pronouncing these locations the right way lol.
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Sarah
As a former resident of the area, I have to correct this pronunciation at 2: 42.
It's PIC-kyoon, not pic-ka-yun. I don't think I've ever been more offended by a mispronounced word.
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As a former resident of the area, I have to correct this pronunciation at 2: 42.
It's PIC-kyoon, not pic-ka-yun. I don't think I've ever been more offended by a mispronounced word.
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E̸m̸m̸a̸
I am from Houma, Louisiana. Ida was terrible here, they only talked about New Orleans. When I came back from San Antonio Texas, it was a war zone. A lot of houses were damage
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I am from Houma, Louisiana. Ida was terrible here, they only talked about New Orleans. When I came back from San Antonio Texas, it was a war zone. A lot of houses were damage
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IronHorse
As a former resident of the beautiful State of Louisiana we take ghost stories and Voodoo very seriously but there always a great time to party for no Particular reason
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As a former resident of the beautiful State of Louisiana we take ghost stories and Voodoo very seriously but there always a great time to party for no Particular reason
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Thuy
He here and us a group of rvemjoy stole my phone yesterday and got into both my count give all the information to them side all of them in our street thrygrt a cut
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He here and us a group of rvemjoy stole my phone yesterday and got into both my count give all the information to them side all of them in our street thrygrt a cut
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Jesse
Blaming Julia Brown was just another form of witch-hunt. The woman-hating suspicion and persecution of women who were different or single or healers.
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Blaming Julia Brown was just another form of witch-hunt. The woman-hating suspicion and persecution of women who were different or single or healers.
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Fruits
Could you cover how polytheistic worshipers practiced in secret when Christianity took over? I've been trying to look into it but I can't find much.
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Could you cover how polytheistic worshipers practiced in secret when Christianity took over? I've been trying to look into it but I can't find much.
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