Forbidden truth on Instagram: "🔴 Louisiana Voodoo—also known as New Orleans Voodoo—is an African diasporic religion that originated in Louisiana in the southern United States. 🔺 It developed through a process of syncretism, blending traditional West African religions with Roman Catholicism and Haitian Vodou. 🔺 Marie Laveau was born a free woman of color on September 10, 1801, to Marguerite D’Arcantel and Charles Laveaux, both of whom were free Black people. She was described as a “quadroon,”