8 Marie Laveau

Marie Laveau, the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. People said she was as powerful as a Supreme witch.

At the height of her power, Marie fell pregnant by her lover Bastien and could not accept the idea of death. Papa Legba appeared to her one night, offering her immortality in exchange for her soul and performing a service for him once a year. Believing their agreement to be of a sexual nature, Marie agreed to the terms and became immortal. Only after giving birth to her daughter did she learn that the service required her to sacrifice the soul of an innocent to Papa, who appears to collect the newborn infant as part of their agreement. After pleading with Papa to take her immortality away, Marie is forced to hand over the child and cries as she watches Papa depart with her daughter.

In 1834, Marie arrived at the La Laurie house to exact her revenge on Madame Delphine La Laurie for torturing Bastien. She tricks Delphine into drinking a "love potion" that will supposedly ensure her husband's fidelity, but it is, in fact, a vial of her tears that causes the Madame to pass out from pain. Marie discovers Bastien's corpse in the attic and tearfully embraces her deceased lover, disfigured from having a bull's head attached to his face.

By 1961, Marie is managing a hair salon known as Cornrow City. Cora, one of her employees, reveals that her son Henry is attending an integrated school. Marie expresses doubts about the white citizens being happy about this, and her words are proven to be true when Henry is lynched by three white men. In retaliation, Marie performs a ritual to raise an army of the undead, sending them after Henry's murderers and brutally killing them.

Around this time, conflict arose between the voodooists and a local witch coven. The feud lasted for about ten years, until Marie and Supreme Anna Leigh Leighton sign a truce in 1971, detailing that neither side is allowed to cross into the other's territory.

Marie is a Voodoo Queen and revered by those who practice the religion and craft. While living in the 19th century, her attire was that of long and elegant dresses; in postmodern New Orleans, her style is more modern, wearing dresses of varied colors with antiquated hairstyles. When she performs rituals, she wears white clothes and a tignon.

When crossed Marie is quick to take revenge and her force is one to be reckoned with. Marie Laveau and her voodoo following hold much animosity toward witches, specifically the descendants of the Salem Witch Trials, her stance towards them changed however when she developed a deep respect, and friendship with Fiona Goode, after seeking refuge with the witches after the loss of her Voodoo followers.

Figuring out Marie gave LaLaurie eternal life, Fiona Goode goes to the hair parlor that Marie (not having aged a day) has set up. The two banter insults to one another until Fiona reveals she has leverage on her and asks for the secret to immortality. Marie laughs and refuses to give her the secret. Fiona leaves, but not before setting fire to Marie's hair displays. Having figured out LaLaurie has been freed by Fiona, Marie sends the Minotaur after the former socialite.

A few days later, Marie is visited by Cordelia Foxx who asks the priestess for the fertility ritual to be performed after hearing from the doctor that it was not possible for her to become pregnant. Marie describes the ritual in detail to Cordelia, and that she charges a large payment, yet guarantees success. Cordelia is unfazed by the price, but due to Fiona's actions earlier, Marie refuses to do the ritual for the daughter of her sworn enemy.

On Halloween, while working at the hair salon, Marie's employee Chantal received a package from Fiona containing the head of the Minotaur. Distraught, Marie proclaimed the truce was finished and used her voodoo ritual to awaken the dead to attack Miss Robichaux's Academy. The dead remain still until Marie orders them to attack everyone, including innocent civilians. After Zoe destroys the majority of the dead with a chainsaw, one remains, going after her. With the chainsaw out of power, Zoe lifts her hand at the dead man, saying "Be In Your Nature", breaking Marie's spell. Marie collapses with the spell broken, stating that the witches have some real power now at the Academy.

Marie meets with Hank, revealing that he has been working with her for years to destroy every Salem witch. She accuses Hank of falling for Cordelia, and becomes angry thinking how Fiona killed her lover again. She orders Hank to kill every witch at the academy, or she will kill him.

Later, Marie is visited by Queenie when cooking gumbo outside. Marie offers Queenie a proper family and home in exchange for Delphine LaLaurie, to whom she wants to get back at. Queenie leaves Cornrow City but thinks about the bargain.

Queenie manages to trick Delphine to entering Cornrow City by promising her a beauty makeover. Once inside, Delphine is surprised by getting captured, locked inside a cage, and cutting parts of her body and using the blood for a makeover, to which Marie describes as "beautiful".

Marie then catches Queenie speaking to Delphine and sends her off. Marie secretly takes a knife from a cupboard and slashes Delphine's hand when she becomes rude and angry at the Voodoo Queen who would later decapitate Delphine and send her head to the witches' coven in a box; exactly the same way that the witches sent Bastien to her.

The next day, Fiona approaches Marie at the hair salon, bringing Delphine's head with her. Fiona informs her of the attack by a witch hunter, with a silver bullet as proof. Fiona suggests an alliance between the Voodoo tribe and the witch coven. Marie outright rejects the offer, believing the hunters will only be a threat to the Salem witches.

Marie torments Hank using a Voodoo doll to force him to kill the Salem witches. The next morning, Hank goes to Cornrow City with a full arsenal and begins killing everyone in the salon. He reaches Marie and wounds her arm. Queenie, who was already mortally wounded, grabs a gun on the ground, puts it in her mouth and pulls the trigger, using her power to kill Hank before he could kill Marie. Realizing the threat she faces, and the loss she suffered, Marie goes to Robichaux's Academy to seek refuge, agreeing to the alliance Fiona offered before.

She and Fiona have a sit down with the Witch Hunters and everyone in the room is hacked to death because of the Axeman. She and Fiona also team up to sacrifice Nan to Papa Legba. Delphine is tricked by Spalding's ghost to give Marie Laveau saying that it will render her mortal but fails and in a blind rage she chases Delphine which results in her being knocked out. She is tortured and hacked apart by Delphine before being scattered. Because of Queenie's logic that due to her being dismembered she can no longer carry out her side of the bargain, Papa Legba takes her soul.

Upon arriving in Hell, she begins torturing Delphine's daughter, Borquita. She then comes to her senses and states that does not want to torture her, but Papa Legba forces her to do so because he owns her soul. Realizing that she is dead, she questions as to why she has been sent to Hell, as she believes that she has done far more good than bad. However, Papa Legba insists that the newborn sacrifices she made in his name maintains her stay in Hell.

Marie was a shockingly powerful Voodoo practitioner who held the status of Voodoo Queen among the Voodooists in New Orleans for centuries. It is implied by Fiona that Marie's magic could be more powerful than hers.

As a result of annual human sacrifices to Papa Legba, Marie was not susceptible to human weaknesses, thus being immune to all aging, and disease as well as death. However, this power was revoked by Papa Legba when he deemed (with some persuasion from Queenie) that Marie was unable to continue to fulfill the terms of their contract. In short, she possessed the power of immortality.

Apart from that, she was also endowed with the power of telekinesis. Telekinesis is the magical ability to create, control and manipulate fire. Marie was seen using this power during a ritual that would reanimate the dead, where she lit the snake's blood on fire in order to inhale the fumes.

Let's not forget that she was such a powerful witch, that among her first two powers, Marie was known for Pyrokinesis, Divination, Transmutation, Illusion Manipulation, War Cry, Voodoo Spell craft, Reanimation Ritual, Injury Ritual, Summoning Ritual, Voodoo Boundary Spell, Sound Nullification Enchantment, Voodoo Potion craft, to name a few.

Her life in hell was often difficult, but not boring. She knew and listened and learned things that her sisters on Earth did not even know. That amused her. At least in parts.

Marie laughed loudly and slightly paranoid while playing the blonde doll made of rags in her cracked from work and time hands.

While she should have the marks of death on her, the doll had nothing. She was just standing like new between the palms of her hands.

"You know very well what that means, right?" Asked the woman next to her, who, necessarily or not, was her roommate.

"Our little star is gone. Everything will be lost. But we have no reason to be miserable," she added excitedly, opening a bottle of wine from the minibar she had managed to claim. "And that's because it does not affect us in anything. At least not directly." She said and with quick movements filled two glasses, and after offering one to her roommate, she sat down in her declining office and opened her notebook. She had a lot of work to do.

So, without further ado, she opened the notebook in front of her on the right page and began to study non-stop.