A few months after Hurricane Katrina, construction crews moved in and began helping to rebuild the city of New Orleans.
During renovations on one flood damaged home, workers discovered a hidden room behind a false wall. It looked like the hidden room had been sealed up for at least a hundred years!
Inside was some kind of stone altar, covered with strange dolls, statues, candles and bottles. In the middle of the altar, resting in the middle of a circle drawn with some kind of strange white powder, was an old hand written leather book. It was a strange combination of English and French, and the workers could only make out small parts here and there; "To Bring a Lover" , "To Win at Gambling", "To Become Succesful", "To Obtain the Three Magic Bones".
Dozens and dozens of chants, and spells, and incantations. It was hard to make sense of it all. One part seemed to be a list of various oils and their ingredients, another section told of how to foretell the future from a card game called Patience, and goes on to explain the method and the meanings of the cards.
These men knew nothing of Voodoo and Hoodoo, and almost threw the book and other items away. Then they saw on the inside cover of the book one thing they had heard of, a name.One that anyone who has ever set foot in New Orleans has heard.
Written on the inside cover were these words: "Property of Marie Laveau".
