Clarification on Marie Laveau
Was she a Vodoo or Vodun queen? No! Voodoo wasn't practiced in New Orleans when she was alive. Marie was never initiated and therefore was never a voodoo queen. It was a part of the culture, even today, where competing fortune tellers and rootworkers claimed to be voodoo queens, when they never actually practiced voodoo. Marie's mentor was a hoodoo rootworker that went by the title of Doctor. Real voodoo priests aren't called Doctors. Rootworkers call themselves doctors.
Marie did Root work or will even give her the title of a Caplata. People are confusing Root workers, Vodun or Vodoo, Ifa practitioner, and Hoodoo.
Bokors or Caplata are like in a sense independent contractors for prayers.
Hey, I need help getting a job could you pray(chore or work) for me.
Hey, 4 racist European men jumped me yesterday, told me next time they see me they will kill me. Could you pray for their downfall or death.
Africans never had a belief of Good or Evil like Abrahamic cultures. Right and Wrong depends on what place or situation your in. If someone is trying to harm you or kill you. If you fight back that is not violence.