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Voodoo queen's grave forces cemetery to restrict access to the burial grounds

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Offerings at the tomb of "Voodoo Queen" Marie Laveau  Photo: Gonola.com

New Orleans' oldest cemetery will soon be closed to visitors without an official escort or familial ties to the deceased, the result of a spate of vandalism that has included the tomb of voodoo queen Marie Laveau.

Vandalism is not a new problem at Laveau's tomb and others at St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, which dates to the late 1700s and is perhaps the most famous graveyard in a city whose above-ground burial plots are among its defining characteristics.

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