Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Happy Women's History Month! We have decided to post a show every week in March. Of course, each and every day we focus on women's history around here, but this is our way of emphasizing our celebration of this particular, temporarily lost, dedicated page of the calendar.

Fortuitously, March has brought us Mardi Gras today, the perfect occasion to bring back from the vault our coverage of Marie LeVoe.

We've invited her back from 2017, and we'll see you next week with a brand new show.

And now without further ado, on with the show.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Oh, here's one.

To keep your boss from firing you.

Write his name on a piece of paper, bury it in your backyard with a chopped

up red candle and a black cat's tail. How to keep your boss from firing you. Quit.

I don't need no stinking Marie LeVoe curse. The end. Let's talk about Marie LeVoe, the voodoo queen of New Orleans.

But first, let's drop her into history. In 1794, the U.S. flag was changed to 15 stripes and 15 stars.

Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin. The Louvre is open to the public.

Our old friend, Kath and the Great, allowed Jewish people to settle in Kiev,

and composer of Ferdinand Schubert, and Rich Meen-Grenelius Vanderbilt, were both born.

In 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the United States. The first census of

Great Britain counted approximately 10 million citizens. The state of Louisiana was under Spanish rule,

but not for long. And in 1794 or 1801, voodoo queen and gifted marketer Marie LeVoe is born in New Orleans.

Marie LeVoe was likely born on September 16th, 1801, although accounts do vary.

She was the daughter of Marguerite Dargantel, free woman of color, and Charles Levo, a free man of color.

Though it must be stated that many histories you read

will tell you that Marie's father was a white man, even so far as that he was a member of the state

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