Foundations in New Orleans Voodoo Master Class

Foundations in New Orleans Voudou is an introductory course that explores the basic concepts and practices of New Orleans Voodoo including the history of Voodoo in New Orleans, Ancestor reverence, and the spirits in the New Orleans Voodoo pantheon.

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Course curriculum

1. Copyright Agreement
2. Welcome to the Mysteries
3. Create a Learning Ritual
4. How to Access Course Content
5. Who is This Course For?
6. Why This Course?
7. Questions?
8. Let's Get This Party Started!
9. Course Pretest
1. Glossary of New Orleans Voodoo Terms
2. The History of New Orleans Voodoo
3. Presentation: Some Facts About New Orleans Voodoo
4. Quiz: New Orleans Voodoo
5. Video: Inside the Coven: Voodoo in New Orleans
6. Quiz: Voodoo in New Orleans
7. Examples of Voodoo Propaganda
8. Voodoo and Vodun, 1890
9. Historical Article: New Orleans Superstitions, 1886
10. Quiz: New Orleans Superstitions
11. Presentation: Hoodoo's Frizzly Chicken
12. Is Hoodoo Part of Voodoo?
1. Forms of New Orleans Voudou
2. Creolization
3. Pop Quiz: Creolization
4. Syncretism of Catholicism and New Orleans Voodoo
5. Papa Labat
6. New Orleans Voodoo Spirits and Corresponding Catholic Saints
7. Quiz: Syncretism
8. Yoruba Influences on Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo
9. The Yoruba Creation Story
10. African Influences on New Orleans Voodoo
11. Quiz: Yoruba Influences on New Orleans Voodoo
12. Influence of Haitian Vodou on New Orleans Voodoo
13. Quiz: Haitian Vodou
14. Infographic: Forms of Voodoo in New Orleans
15. Individual Expression of New Orleans Voodoo
16. Why We Can't Talk to You About Voodoo
17. Quiz: Why We Can't Talk to You About Voodoo
18. Laveau Voudou: A New Religion
19. Elmore Lee Banks was Bitch Slapped by the Voodoo Queen
20. Is Marie Laveau the Mother of Invention?
21. Pop Quiz: Laveau Voodoo
22. Catholic in the Morning, Voodoo by Night: An Analysis of Marie Laveau's Syncretistic Practice of Roman Catholicism and Voodoo
23. Quiz: Catholic in the Morning, Voodoo at Night
24. Infographic: Voudou Tree
25. Chapter Test: Influences on New Orleans Voodoo
1. Ancestor Reverence
2. What is Ancestor Reverence?
3. Presentation: Ancestor Reverence
4. Quiz: Ancestor Reverence
5. Who are the Ancestors?
6. Egungun
7. Assignment: Seven Generation Family Tree
8. Help! I'm Adopted
9. Creating a Bridge Between Worlds: Building an Altar to the Ancestors
10. Setting Spiritual Boundaries
11. Making an Ancestor Altar
12. Assignment: Gathering Nine Types of Dirt
13. Assignment: Dirt Collection
14. The Boveda or Spirit Table of Caribbean Spiritism
15. Kardecian Library
16. Maintaining the Altar and Boveda
17. Meal for the Ancestors
18. How to Address the Ancestors
19. Pouring Libations and Making Offerings
20. Formula Spotlight: Seven African Powers Incense
21. Ancestors
22. Honoring Ancestors
23. Ancestors, Spirits, and God
24. Chapter Quiz: Ancestor Reverence
1. The Sacred Geography of New Orleans Voodoo
2. Growing Up in New Orleans
3. Test Your Knowledge
4. Hoodoo Town, Home of Algiers Conjure
5. Formula Spotlight: Algiers Fast Luck
6. Congo Square
7. Formula Spotlight: African Ju Ju Oil
8. The Haunted Voodoo Tree of Congo Square, 1891
9. Storyville, New Orleans' Famous Red Light District
10. Formulas for Ladies of the Night
11. The New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple
12. Presentation Inside a Voodoo Temple
13. Priestess Miriam's Prayer to Jove
14. Bayou St. John
15. A Voodoo Festival in New Orleans, 1896
16. The Tomb of the Widow Paris
17. Not So Pretty in Pink
18. The International Shrine of Marie Laveau
19. Hoodoo Drugstores
20. The Cracker Jack, A Hoodoo Drugstore in the Cradle of Jazz
21. Test Your Knowledge
22. Ants Won't Climb Over John Stumpf's Magic Hoodoo Ant Paper
23. Fortune Teller Arrested for Stealing 1951
24. What Kinda Fresh Hell is Dis?
25. Just Call Ann Karen
26. Cities of the Dead
27. I Left My Leg in St. Roch's Cemetery
28. Old Mortuary Chapel/Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
29. Lake Pontchartrain
30. Dance of the Voodoos at Lake Pontchartrain, 1896
1. New Orleans Gris Gris
2. Senegal's Genies, Spirits, and Spells
3. Newspaper Article: Louisiana Gris Gris Really Work, Some People Think
4. Gris Gris as Contraception
5. How to Make a Gris Gris Bag
6. New Orleans Gris Gris
7. Quiz: Gris Gris
8. Animal Sacrifice
9. Animal Sacrifice versus Ritual Offerings
10. Black Cat Conjure and Sacrifice
11. The Vegan Vodou Priestess Isn't Interested in Animal Sacrifice
12. Possession
13. What Does Possession Look Like?
14. Two Studies of Spirit Possession in Niger
15. Zombiism
16. New Orleans Zombie Bottles
17. Investigating the Haitian Zombi
18. Public Rituals and Community Dances
19. Q & A about Voodooism 1902
1. The New Orleans Voodoo Pantheon of Spirits
2. St. Anthony of Padua, Patron Saint of Lost Things
3. Yon Sue Faithfully Guards the Voudou Traditions
4. Annie Christmas, Daughter of the Mississippi River
5. Baron Samedi, Voodoo Spirit of Death
6. St. Expedite, Patron Saint of Expediency and a Whole Lot of Other Stuff
7. Baron Samedi and St. Expedite
8. Doctor John Montenee
9. St. John the Baptist
10. St. John’s Poor Head
11. The Haunting of St. John's Head
12. Golden Legend: Decollation of Saint John the Baptist
13. St. Peter with Keys
14. Papa Legba, Gatekeeper and Guardian of the Crossroads
15. Marie Laveau
16. The Sacred Serpent of New Orleans Voodoo: Li Grand Zombi
17. Serpent Worship and Snake Conjure
18. Temple of the Python, Ouidah, Benin Republic
19. Li Grand Zombi
1. What Does It Mean to Serve the Spirits?
2. Initiation vs Individual Practitioner
3. Where to Go From Here
4. Great Job on Your Progress!
5. Final Exam
6. You're Almost Done!