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The Sacred Gold Monkey and Cock Rare New Orleans Voodoo Curio
The Gold Sacred Monkey and Cock
Ritually prepared each month and hand carved in clay -- personally by Bianca, The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Each Scared Monkey and Cock Statue is gilded in a rich, vibrant gold. Each may differ slightly in appearance because of being carved by hand. All are one of a kind New Orleans Voodoo Hoodoo art pieces.
Some talismans are designed to bring increase to the bearer and there are several popular talismanic devices of this sort. Probably the most famous and most sought after luck talisman of the New Orleans hoodoo voodoo tradition is the Golden Monkey and Cock Curio Statue. The history of the Monkey and Cock Statues go back generations in New Orleans and have been associated with the secret practices of the societies founded by Voodoo Queen Marie Laveaux. In the New Orleans of today, the Sacred Gold Monkey and Cock Statues are hand carved by Bianca and then gilded in a rich, vibrant gold. Each comes in a specially prepared wooden box . Then these Voodoo Good Luck Statues are individually blessed by Bianca, the reigning Queen of New Orleans Voodoo, in ritual blessing ceremonies held twice yearly. The hand carved detail is performed during a ritual at the new moon, is blessed, and is gilded in a rich, vibrant gold. No two are ever exactly alike. Each is quite special and unique. Small clay Monkey and Cock statues have been appearing at the grave of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau for years and these more common Monkey and Cock statues are said to grant three wishes to the bearer over a three year period. The gold Sacred Monkey and Cock Statue is said to grant wishes for the lifetime of the owner. It has been the experience of those who keep the gold Monkey and Cock statues that wishes are granted, on average, once each year, though there have been occasions where several wishes at a time have been fulfilled. Unlike their common counterpart, the gold Monkey and Cock Statue is generally quite rare and those who have them in their possession usually do not relinquish them. Unlike mojos or gris-gris prepared for a particular individual, the Sacred Golden Monkey and Cock Statue can be passed down through generations and usually is.
The day you receive the Monkey and Cock it becomes it's birthday. On that day you make a substantial wish, something real and genuine and from the heart. During the year your wish may come true. The owner makes their wish On their Monkey and Cock's birthday yearly.
MONKEY & COCK
EACH measures 3 inches tall. The hand carved detail is performed during a ritual at the new moon it is blessed. No two are alike. Ritually prepared and made of clay, hand carved personally by Bianca --- The voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Each may differ slightly in appearance since it is hand carved. All are one of a kind and special.
GOLD MONKEY & COCK
Ritually prepared each month and hand carved in clay -- personally by Bianca, The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Each Scared Monkey and Cock Statue is available gilded in a rich, vibrant gold. Each may differ slightly in appearance because of being carved by hand. All are one of a kind New Orleans Voodoo Hoodoo art pieces.
All items sold here as actual New Orleans Voodoo "CURIOS" only.
About the Book Never before has the history of the Mardi Gras celebration been looked at this way. Errol Laborde focuses on the first 60 years of the organized celebration in New Orleans, a period that bridges the premiere parade of the Mistick Krewe of Comus and the founding of the Zulu organization. Along the way he discovers fascinating characters; including a poetic journalist who survived a bloody attack, an archduke looking for fun and a would-be king finding religion. Laborde also links an African War with Custer¹s Last Stand and disproves some of the conventional wisdom about Carnival¹s early history. This is the most important contemporary book on early Carnival history. And it fun to read too.
about Errol Laborde Errol Laborde is the Editor-in-Chief of Renaissance Publishing Company. In that capacity he serves as Editor/Associate Publisher of New Orleans Magazine and Editor/ Publisher of Louisiana Life Magazine.He also oversees several other company publications, including St. Charles Avenue and New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles.
Laborde is producer and a regular panelist on Informed Sources, a weekly news discussion program broadcast on public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12.
Laborde's
most recent books are Krewe: The Early Carnival from Comus to Zulu and Marched the Day God. a history of the Rex organization. He also wrote the text for a pictorial book, Mardi Gras- A Celebration and has published two compilations of his Streetcar local color columns, The Buzzard Wore A Tutu and I Never Danced With An Eggplant. BUY THE BOOK
