Mmmkay. Marie Levaux’s sounds a little too bizarre for me. :-\
Glad the trip went well and that you made it safely back!
Bizarre, it is, but that's what the Creole culture brought to New Orleans. There were slaves who had had their own religious beliefs in devils, 'haints' and spells, and they just overlaid Catholicism onto that when the missionaries arrived. It is certainly an interesting store, that's for sure.