3. American Horror Story: Coven (2013) Descendants of colonial Salem witches are living secret lives in modern–day New Orleans, where they face threats from both inside and outside of their coven, including witch hunters, voodoo, and dark magic. AHS: Coven Cast Stevie Nicks Taissa Farmiga...
However, despite attempting even to murder her, Cordelia was intelligent enough to conclude that the Coven would not survive without her mother's power. She showed a dark side by proclaiming Queenie as "dead" to her for the witch's betrayal and alliance towards voodoo. As a teenager, ...
And don’t forget the eternal showdown between real-life NOLA figures, the voodoo queen Marie Laveau (Bassett) and mass murderer Delphine LaLaurie (Bates). But there is also a whimsy to its depiction of witches, even employing the White Witch herself, Stevie Nicks, for a musical guest spot...
This article will examine intersecting representations of race, magic and religion in American Horror Story: Coven. Coven traces the presence of witchcraft and voodoo in New Orleans from the nineteenth century to the present day. The season presents two conflicting and racially divided modes of ...
American Horror Story, the long-running FX horror anthology, is known for its intricate storytelling. How does the series weave together ...
Marie Laveau was a character fromAHS:Covenbased on the real Marie Laveau, an infamous voodoo practitioner.AHS’sLaveau practiced voodoo in her hair salon, which was filmed in theMaison Vitryin New Orleans. The home was built in 1855 for Louise Arsene Vitry, a free African-American woman. It...
In American Horror Story: Coven, an extremely powerful Voodoo Queen in modern times, Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) made the greatest of sacrifices to attain immortality. With a dark, bloody past behind her and a broiling war with a witch coven in the present, she calmly spends her days runn...
Call it voodoo, magik or hocus pocus, but American Horror Story: Coven is off to an enchanting start after two back-to-back freak shows. Granted, said enchantment could be used to “marry the devil,” as tonight’s Zoe Benson briefly dreads, but all the better to hone our craft!
Notes Cordelia Goode Hell [1] Although Cordelia Goode claims that magic is powerless within the Cortez,Queeniewas still able to use some of her powers when she first checked in, such asDivinationandInjury Transference. It is possible that this is due to her Voodoo heritage, however. ...
American Horror Story, the long-running FX horror anthology, is known for its intricate storytelling. How does the series weave together ...