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SUBMITTED NEW ORLEANS GHOST STORIES AND PHOTOS |
SUBMITED
BY: DEBBIE
SARGENT
Monkey
and Cock found at the wish come true tomb of Marie
Laveau The New Orleans Voodoo Queen.
Photos by Debbie
Sargent
I Went to the St.
Louis Cemetery on February 11th to visit my families
tomb and see for damages. I took along my camera
in case I had to document any of the destruction
from the flooding and high winds. I went to the
tomb of Marie Laveau after seeing that our tomb
was ok. And To my surprise sitting there on the
marble ledge was a very old Monkey and Cock statue
and a gold watch bracelet.
I knew the story
of the Monkey and his Cock since I was a child,
I am now 57. I had never actually seen one until
now and I know own this one. I had been told the
story of them many times in my life by friends and
family over the years but never did I think I would
find one for myself.
It is not in great
condition but it is powerful to say the least said
local Voodoo Priestess at the Voodoo Museum I also
compared it to the one they ave on display there
and could see the marked differences.
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New
Orleans Construction Worker Finds Rare Collectible
14 Karat Gold Leafed Monkey and Cock Statue Buried
in Hurricane Katrina Mud on Damaged Canal Street
Sidewalk!
Photos by Photos by C. Modjeski
“I never felt luckier!”
says local Ray Eslick. “I’ve seen them
before and always wanted one – now it looks
like one found me!”
While assisting
other workers in a repair survey in downtown New
Orleans, local construction worker Ray Eslick caught
sight of something shiny in the scaled, caked-on
mud near the edge of a Canal Street sidewalk. Grabbing
a small survey pick, Eslick instantly went to work
to uncover the mysterious object. When he pulled
it from the dirt, Eslick found, to his amazement,
that he held in his hand a rare and much sought-after
old New Orleans Voodoo Charm: a 14-karat gold leafed
Sacred Monkey and Cock Statue!
Said to be one
of the most powerful totems of New Orleans Voodoo,
with a history that can be traced back to Voodoo
Queen Marie Laveaux, and beyond, the Sacred Monkey
and Cock is famous for granting its owner three
wishes in a three year period. The golden Monkey
and Cock, however, is said to grant the owner three
wishes almost as soon as it is found.
Eslick, who
is employed with Boh Bros., a local construction
company that has labored continuously since the
onslaught of Katrina to help the city of New Orleans
recover and rebuild, believes his find to be an
indication that “the powers that be”
are smiling on the work he and his colleagues are
doing.
“I think
it’s a positive sign,” Eslick said as
he displayed his find to crewmembers gathered nearby.
“I know we’ve been working hard to get
this city back to the way everyone wants it to be.
I hope this is a sign that we’re going to
be able to do that.”
The little figurine,
depicting a monkey and a cock (or rooster) dancing
in celebration, is legendary for its ability to
bring good fortune, love and health to its bearer.
A “wishing curio,” the Monkey and Cock
Statue is nonetheless designed to be shared: when
the recipient receives his or her three wishes (usually
at the end of a three year period), the owner is
then obligated to hand the little curio back to
the spirits by “abandoning” it for some
other lucky person to find.
Monkey and Cock
Statues should be left at a crossroads or other
familiar place, or at a grave site. This is why
many such statues are found among the graves in
New Orleans cemeteries, and at the tomb of Marie
Laveau in particular, the Voodoo Queen who is credited
with popularizing the curio during her reign.
Today Bianca,
reigning Queen of New Orleans Voodoo, is the main
reliquary of knowledge concerning this strange curio,
its powers and origin. Most modern versions of this
ancient symbol are produced by associates of Queen
Bianca who are members of the secret voodoo sosyete
she maintains as a descending queen from Marie Laveau.
Each year, Queen Bianca conducts ritual blessings
of the statues, hand-crafted in everything from
plaster to gold, and oversees their distribution
among voodoo devotees and other lucky people. Bianca
has only very recently allowed a wider access to
these unique New Orleans talismans by placing them
for sale online.
Eslick knew
a little about the history of the statue from his
grandmother whom, he says, once had her own Monkey
and Cock.
“I can’t
tell you what happened to that thing,” Eslick
said. “Of course, I was little and I didn’t
know anything about having to give it back [after
the three year period]. Now I understand completely.”
Asked if he
would observe the ritual and abandon his find when
his three years are up, Eslick hesitated and then
replied, “Well, if I want to have good luck,
I guess I’m going to have to. But I think
my grandma would want me to do that, so, yeah, I’m
going to give it away when I’m supposed to.”
In the meantime,
however, Eslick intends to look forward to having
his wishes fulfilled and to enjoying them when they
do.
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SUBMITED
BY: Linda
The white washed tomb of Voodoo Queen
Marie Laveau Post Hurricane Katrina, January 12th
2006.
I am a F.
E.
M A. Employee and when I
got To New Orleans all I wanted to do was visit
the Legendary tomb of New Orleans voodoo queen Marie
Laveau.
St. Louis 1 is the
city's oldest cemetery, founded in 1789. It contains
the city's most famous tomb, that of voodoo queen
Marie Laveau. She's buried in the Glapion family
tomb. at the very top. It sits next to the tomb
of former New Orleans Mayor Ernest N. Morial.
A small white
statue of a Voodoo Magic monkey cock Good Luck
statue. I photographed at the foot of the tomb.
If I had known It was left there for someone
to take I would have taken it but I thought
it was a part of that or another tomb.
When I had gone to
the Marie Laveaus'real House of Voodoo I saw one
on the great altar to her, and the girl behind the
counter told me of it's story. I also went and have
spoken to a person at the New Orleans Voodoo Museum,
and saw the one they have there on display and recognized
it immediately as similar to what I saw in the cemetery
earlier. I went back to see if it was still there
but they were gone. But I will keep going back and
looking. Since now I know it's origins and great
Voodoo powers to change ones life.
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I recently moved into
a furnished apartment in the French Quarter
in New Orleans. The building was constructed
in the 1830's before the Civil War, and currently
contains several nice apartments.
The current owner purchased
the building several years ago and claims constantly
to me that there is nothing unusual or strange,
or haunted about the building documented in
the Cities historical records.
Attached is a photo
of where I live. And if anyone knows anything
about this building please let me know ASAP!
The ghost tours are not going on since I moved
here post hurricane Katrina, so I will have
to contact them and see what they have to tell
me.
The Building
is located on the Corner of Royal Street and Governor
Nichols. The actual physical address is 1140 Royal
Street. My apartment is on the third floor just
beneath the attic. I really love it and think
it's a great place to live, and I don't want to
move out.
My apartment consists of a living
room and kitchen and a bedroom and bathroom. The
floors are hardwood dark stained cypress, and
was told it was part of a larger room that was
made into three separate apartments.
About a week after I moved , I was sitting
in the living room, and I began to hear loud
audible, distinct footsteps walking across the
hardwood floor in the bedroom. I live alone
and there was no one here but me. It was light
but sounded like a woman walking very fast or
in a great hurry. At first the footsteps sounded
like a woman's high heels but I later realized
they could have been from any kind of hard leather
heel including a man's light footsteps.
The footsteps began in the front of the bedroom
and walked to the back, then to the front again.
They seemed to have a kind of hollow echo to
them, so I initially thought perhaps they were
coming from the apartment next door, even as
I was looking at the thick plaster wall and
telling myself that wasn't possible. I recently
found out that my apartment neighbor has wall-to-wall
carpeting. So The sound did not come from there.
In addition to the footsteps, I also hear "rummaging"
and "shuffling and sometimes the sound of
moaning and chains being dragged" and sometimes
the smell of smoke like a fires burning.
This is like something out of a horror movie,
I mean it. Also strange noises as if someone were
going through boxes or dresser drawers, looking
for something. I also heard something being dropped
on the floor in the attic above me.Then the sound
I can only describe as chains being dragged across
the floor. The footsteps and other noises occur
very often day and night.
I went out of town for three days for Thanksgiving,
and the day I came back the footsteps started
immediately and then there was a lot of activity,
a lot of thumping noises and chain dragging.
I was scared of the noises again last night,
so I decided to go out and as I headed out the
living room door there were several loud crashes
directly above my head, and something that sounded
like a body or heavy object hitting the ceiling
with a loud thud. And then the Chains began rolling
or being dragged across the floor. I ran out the
door. I went and enjoyed my self watching the
first Mardi Gras Parade of New Orleans Carnival
season the Phunny Phorty Phellows street car twelfth
night parade. I figured I need a break from the
normal.
I spent the day today in my bedroom January 7th,
2006, at the computer, typing this and putting
this ghost story in my live journal. I did not
go out of the house today. It is very cold and
damp, so I am wearing two layers of clothes. I
have been mentally exhausted from my work helping
to rebuild the city Of New Orleans so have slept
most of this lazy Saturday away, I actually slept
in my clothes because it is cold and because I
was just too tired to get undressed. At about
3:PM. I was awakened by what sounded like someone
knocking on door but no one was there. I looked
there is a deep 3" scratch that broke the
skin and was bleeding and surrounded by redness.
It was defiantly not there when I went to bed.
I am very frightened because there is no way
that deep scratch could have happened without
me knowing about it. It burns and it hurts and
I would have felt it happen, if it happened during
the night or at the parade which was not possible.
I would have known it!
I wondered if the spirit can now get through
to me on this plane of existence. I am really
begriming to take this Ghost as a true thing and
very seriously, and I am afraid.
The only other person I mentioned the ghost haunting
to, is a bartender friend named David at the Bourbon
Pub. He says he believes me since he had encounters
with a ghost in Thailand as a child. And that
the Bar is actually haunted by many ghosts that
he has seen with his own two eyes. David suggested
that I talk to it nicely as they do to their ghost
in his country, tell it my name, and explain that
I am sorry that I have to stay in it's home and
please allow me to live in peace and share it
with him.
As I write this,
I have no plans to ever move out of here. But today
I am very afraid to go to sleep tonight, and I am
terrified that whatever it is, does not want me
there and is now either trying to tell me that,
or worse now, trying to harm me. I think I will
investigate it more in the days ahead. And let everyone
Know what's going here!
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