Quest For The Voodoo Queen

Planter:	Obscure Wings
Location:	Tyler Park Newtown, PA (United States) [MapQuest] [Yahoo! Maps] [Google Maps]
Plant Date:	March 2, 2008
Clue Last Updated:	November 27, 2008
Status:	unavailable (Last found: Nov 9, 2008)

This box is currently unavailable for much needed maintenance.

Marie Laveau was born in New Orleans in 1794 and was considered a free woman of color. Everyone knew Marie Laveaux used the Voodoo religion’s magical powers to control one’s lovers, acquaintances, enemies, and sex. Hence, women confided in her their concerns and fears about their husbands, their lovers, their estates, their husbands’ mistresses, their business affairs, and their fears of insanity and of anyone discovering a trace of Negro blood in their ancestry. Stories prevailed about secret rituals being held deep in the bayous, that included the worship of Mam'zelle Laveau's snake named Zombi, and celebratory dancing and drinking. Nearly a third of the worshippers were white, coveting the "power" to regain a lost lover, to take a new lover, to eliminate a business partner, or to destroy an enemy.

The consummate business woman, Mam'zelle Laveau used the sensationalism associated with the Voodoo ceremonies to advance the purposes of the Voodoo movement in New Orleans. She opened the ceremonies up to the public, allowing the press, police, the New Orleans roués, and anyone curious about the forbidden religion to attend.

Eventually, Marie Laveau, with all of her secret knowledge, became the most powerful woman in New Orleans. Whites of every class sought her help in their various affairs and amours while blacks saw her as their leader. Judges paid her as much as $1000 to win an election, other whites paid $10 for an insignificant love powder. She freely helped most blacks. To visit her for a reading became fashionable.
(Source: www.mysticvoodoo.com)

This box is hidden in the same general area as my other box located at
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/clue/index.html?gBoxId=71489

You will need to bring your own ink pad in any color you choose.

Park at the Fisherman’s Parking Lot located on Rt. 332 aka Richboro Rd. This lot is across the street from The Spring Garden Mill where the Langhorne Players Theater resides. The box is less than 5 minutes from this point.

Take the paved trail until you see a fork where Mill Trail and Mill Dairy Trail meet. Stay to the right following Mill Dairy Trail.

If you are out of shape, you can follow along on the exercise course. If you are in a hurry or hate working out, stay on Mill Dairy Trail until you find that lucky number 13 on your left.

To the right of the exercise course 13 sign is a rock and a downed log. Beyond the log and passed the mess of branches lying limp on the ground, you will see what looks like a conjoined tree slightly to the right. The box is hidden there.

This is not a geocache. Please do not take any of the contents of the box with you.

Beware: This box is hidden close enough to a busy paved trail but passerby’s may just think you’re doing some side stretches. The White-tail deer love that location as I stepped in some of the “evidence” of this while hiding the box.