Download or read book Healing the Bayou written by Mary Bernsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After learning that she is adopted, Eliza sets off to locate her biological family and finds them in the Louisiana bayou. But they're more than just locals-they're descended from the area's most famous Voodoo queen, Marie Laveau-Eliza's great-great-grandmother. Surrounded by a mysterious world of seances, spells, and sacrifices, Eliza finds herself worshiped as the last great priestess. What's more, she's inherited the ability to heal the souls of others with a simple touch of her hands. Eliza is expected to cultivate this gift so she can claim her title as Queen and return the Voodoo community to glory. A task Eliza wouldn't mind as long as she could perform it beside the devastating Samuel Mueller. But according to tradition, Samuel is her keeper, and a keeper never becomes romantically involved with his ward. His sacred duty is to protect her. And the bayou is rife with enemies who would sacrifice anything to eliminate outsiders like Eliza. . .

Download or read book The Other Side of the Bayou written by Constance Schroder Stewart and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faced with a devastating diagnosis of cancer in 2015, I knew it was connected to my past. Had my childhood belief about my own mortality come to pass? My relentless struggle to escape the shadowy world of abuse, mental illness, addiction and tragic loss created lifelong struggles and cancer threatened to bring it all back. Wanting nothing more than to flee my wretched youth, I found reprieve through my psychic gifts and jumping out of my body. As my paranormal abilities strengthened, so did my fathers desire to control me. Mama knew about Daddys late night visits, but very little was expected of her because of the Schizophrenia. Even in her own psychotic world, Mama knew things. She chose to turn her back on me for reasons I could not understand while she prioritized the safety of my siblings. Daddy tortured my oldest brother and hero, Ricky, until he ran away. Freddie, institutionalized with cerebral palsy, escaped life in our God-forsaken family. Catherine, who was sickly and scared of her own shadow, hid in the closet during Daddys most unbearable attacks on me. Luke, the youngest, was most tuned into my psychic abilities and also exceptionally gifted. Savagely beaten at age sixteen, I was physically ejected from my home. Clothes strewn on the front lawn, I had to suddenly find a place to live and a way to support myself. The excruciatingly lonesome journey back to myself consists of a myriad of heartbreaking relationships, bizarre paranormal experiences and harrowing twists and turns taking me from the mystery of old New Orleans to the sandy beaches of San Diego. Lessons learned in the darkest of times bring the greatest light.

Download or read book Down on the Bayou written by Morgan Mitchel Lally and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Down on the Bayou By: Morgan Mitchel Lally Morgan Mitchel Lally, a native of Louisiana, desired to share her state’s Cajun-French heritage and wildlife in her book, Down on the Bayou. She hopes she can be a part of preserving Louisiana’s rich culture while educating all with colors in French.

Download or read book Cajun Traiteurs written by Alec Sonnier and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this case study is to understand and explore the Cajun folk healing knowledge of the traiteur that has been passed down for generations within families from southern Louisiana. The Cajun traiteur is a faith healer in the Acadiana parishes of Louisiana, and traiteur is the Cajun French word for treater. The participants comprised my extended family in southern Louisiana, associates of this extended family, and included traiteurs and their patients. Thirteen traiteurs and thirty-one patients were interviewed on the topics of treatment, how the healing tradition is passed down, and modern world effects on the Cajun traiteur. A multigenerational interviewing technique was used that had three generations of interviewers. This collaborative family-based research mode of ethnographic data collection was crucial for the study to assure cooperation of the participants, allowing differing generational perspectives and acceptance of the process by the participants. The interviews were recorded, transcribed collaboratively, and qualitative data was collected employing person-centered ethnography methods and grounded theory data collection and analyzation techniques. Results reveal that the participants believe that the healing ability of the traiteur is a "Gift from God". Prayer is used in all treatments, and all traiteurs use laying on of hands for some treatments. Treatments and prayers are performed in threes or multiples of threes, and no compensation is asked for by the traiteur. The traiteur healing prayers and treatments are transmitted to the next generation by the following methods: the traditional method from older male to younger female or older female to younger male, within families regardless of gender, passing it to anyone whom the traiteur senses has the gift of healing, or transmission by association with traiteurs. Participants state that the following modern world effects have caused the traiteurs' decline: lack of belief in traiteur faith healing, increased use of technology, easily accessible modern medical care, lack of knowledge of the traiteur tradition, and difficulty in finding a successor. Though in decline, there have been recent attempts to increase the awareness of the Cajun traiteur faith healing tradition which is an important cultural heritage that must be preserved.

Download or read book Bayou Magic written by Jewell Parker Rhodes and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids, plus an environmental twist. It's city-girl Maddy's first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings - the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid? As her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs, Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her family's magical legacy. And when a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. Does she have what it takes to be a hero? Jewell Parker Rhodes weaves a rich tale celebrating the magic within.

Download or read book The Healing Spell written by Kimberley Griffiths Little and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.

Download or read book My Bayou written by Constance Adler and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly described and intensely personal memoir, My Bayou charts a personal and spiritual transformation along the fabled banks of Bayou Saint John in New Orleans. When Constance Adler moves to New Orleans, she begins what becomes a lasting love affair with the city, and especially the bayou—a living entity and the beating heart of local culture. Rites of passage, celebrations, mysterious accidents, and magic all take place on its banks, leading Adler to a vibrant awareness of the power of being part of a community. That faith is tested in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and is ultimately proven right, as Bayou Saint John begins to rebuild.

Download or read book Wolf Bayou Arkansas and Healing Springs Township written by Louie Clark and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The community of Wolf Bayou is included in Healing Springs Township, Cleburne County, Kansas.

Download or read book Bayou Paradox written by Robin Caroll and published by Harlequin Treasury-Love Inspired 90s. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tara LeBlanc has always considered the untamed Louisiana bayou a source of medicinal healing. But when two elderly women develop a deadly illness, Tara knows something evil has infiltrated her haven. Only Sheriff Rene Bubba Theriot can save Tara from the same fate. Original.

Download or read book Beauty in the Bayou Workbook written by Corinthian Williams and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry and art in the original version of "The Book of Corinthian Chapter One: Beauty in the Bayou" take you on a journey to freedom while healing from issues related to childhood trauma and the generational curses of systemic oppression, sexual abuse, racism, poverty, addiction, mental bondage, religious abuse, disparities in community health, and more. As an extension of this transformative and prophetic work of art, the "Beauty in the Bayou Workbook" was designed with healing in mind to accompany you on your journey as you break the chains that have kept you in bondage far too long. This workbook is equipped with meditations, affirmations, and writing prompts to assist you with journaling, reflecting, and practicing mindfulness. The Beauty in the Bayou workbook is sure to help you transform your pain into power, your sorrow into solutions, and your fears into faith!

Download or read book Cleburne County and Its People written by Carl J. Barger and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleburne County and Its People is a historical account of Cleburne County and the men and women who made it what it is today. These men and women were as diverse as the Ozark Mountain's rock-laden landscapes. The pioneers who settled Cleburne County were as strong as the land, of hardy pioneer stock, and bold in thought and action. They were shrewd, strong-willed individuals who brought staunch beliefs and strong disciplines with them and settled in an untamed wilderness which became Cleburne County. Cleburne County and Its Peoplehas drawn from the past and the present--chronicling the lives of settlers facing hardships and tragedies, discovering profound beauty, mastering vast natural resources, and formulating democratic ideals. The stories in this book are honest interpretations of the human experience intertwined with the old and the new and adding exciting dimensions to the county of Cleburne and the state of Arkansas. The objective of Carl J. Barger, the compiler of Cleburne County and Its People, is to preserve a history of the county of his birth for students, historians, and all of the citizens of Cleburne County. Carl J. Barger is the author of Swords and Plowshares, a Civil War love story, and Mamie, an Ozark Mountain Girl of Courage, a story of the Ozark Mountain people, set in Cleburne and Van Buren Counties.

Download or read book Butterfly Bayou written by Lexi Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake is back with an all-new heartwarming, small-town contemporary romance series set against the spicy southern backdrop of Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou. Life in Dallas took a tragic turn for nurse practitioner Lila Daley. In need of a fresh start, she retreats to Papillon, Louisiana, a tiny town on the bayou. Sure she's greeted by a gator, finds herself in the middle of golf cart wars, and unwittingly adopts a scruffy dog, but Lila remains undaunted. She's focused on running the town's medical clinic, but fitting into the quirky community is harder than she imagined. As a single dad, Sheriff Armie LaVigne embraces routine. But there is nothing routine about the town's newest resident. Lila is a gorgeous fish out of water and he’s ready to catch her. In fact, in no time at all, Armie knows Lila is the woman for him and he plans to win her heart. But when the past threatens their happiness, Armie will have to decide if he has the courage to trust Lila enough to find a true happily ever after.

Download or read book Circle of Secrets written by Kimberley Griffiths Little and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year after her mother deserted the family, 11-year-old Shelby goes to stay with her, deep in the Louisiana bayou, where they both confront old hurts and regrets.

Download or read book Chicken Joy on Redbean Road written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-04-09 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people danced to Joe Beebee’s music they forgot about bad knees, tight shoes, backaches, blisters, and beetles . . . They forgot sickness, sadness, and sin. Joe Beebee’s music, folks say, will take you up so high, your problems look small enough to stomp on. But, worries a plain brown hen, can it make a quiet rooster sing? Can it save her best friend from becoming Quiet Rooster Stew? Will Joe Beebee even play for chickens? With art as fun as waltzing on the moon and with words as lively as a fiddle, this book captures the power of music to heal and of friendship to endure.

Download or read book Bayou Farewell written by Mike Tidwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes it unlike any other place in the world. But seeing the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, and whole cemeteries sinking into swampland and out of sight, Tidwell also explains why each introduction may be a farewell—as the storied Louisiana coast steadily erodes into the Gulf of Mexico. Part travelogue, part environmental exposé, Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes.

Download or read book Buying the Wind written by Richard M. Dorson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection of tales, songs, riddles, proverbs and other items of folklore from seven regional cultures of the U.S.A.

Download or read book Always Be My Banshee written by Molly Harper and published by NYLA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest Mystic Bayou novel from Audie Award-nominated author Molly Harper will have you swooning with passion and wailing with laughter! Cordelia Canton is on a top-secret assignment: travel to Mystic Bayou and use her powers as a touch-know psychic to learn more about the mysterious artifact that’s been pulled from the rift site. She’s partnered with Brendan O’Connor, a rare male banshee whose tall, dark, and broody good looks are a major distraction. Before long, it becomes clear that the artifact they’re studying is sentient—and brimming with supernatural power. Can they harness its magic in time to stop the secret forces conspiring to steal it?