Mama R.

History:

Mama Lily Renardieaux (Known as Mama R. to most) has been in New Orleans since days long forgotten, always sitting in her little storefront home down in the french district of the Big Easy. She's been called the last REAL voodoo queen, and she probably would laugh it off and disagree somethin' fierce. However, that doesn't stop her from enjoying her easy going fame at being the best at fortune telling this side of the Mississippi. Her fame has been attributed to the fact that she's never led a person wrong. And she doesn't cold read, either. None of that high-falootin' flim-flam flies for this woman, she'd be rather be caught dead than lead a person to believe somethin' that ain't in the cards.

Not much is known about her past, but some of the old timers say that Mama R. has been 'round since they were nothin' but young babes at their mama's breast, and their grandperes said that she was there that long, as well. But the further back you get, the more you realize, Mama's been 'round since 'fore New Orleans was even part of the New World.

Mama tells her best of friends, her "Con-fee-dantes" That she'd come all the way from the old lands of Crete, where she had lived under the watchful eye of "Papa Poseiden" Which was her nickname for her oceanfairing grandfather. She enjoyed learning about the ocean, and when she got to be of "marryin' age", she went with her granpere, across the great ocean, to take up residence on the islands of the Caribbean. There, she met a man with whom she fell in love with, and at his demise, her heart was broken, but she struggled on, and under the guidance of some old manni women, learned the ancient arts of voodoo. She came to New Orleans when it was just a budding colony, and has lived ever since.

If asked about her age, she'll say one thing, "Ain't nottin' t'get y'beans boiled 'bout, mon coeur, but sometimes, y'gotta live 'til de legend of y'name's faded away from mem'ry."