My Voodoo Queen

Prologue

There has been an urban legend in Brazil that an iron-fisted mambo (Voodoo priestess) with mocha skin and black eyes and her caramel-skinned shaman lover had created a child with the help of  Bondye, the creator god. They wanted a child of their own and to create a legacy for the mambo and shaman. 

On the sixth day of  the ninth month, the two women molded the child from the Earth, and they both slit their hands and covered the child with their blood. The mambo put three guinea peppers in her mouth to get noticed for her suffering. They prayed to Bondye to give their child life, a child that has mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. They prayed for their child to be strong, kind, trustworthy, smart, and brave. They prayed for their child to be a protector, a leader, and teacher. 

Bondye obliges and gives the lovers a beautiful baby girl with honey skin and black colored eyes. Their prayers were answered!  Their daughter went to America to create a safe haven for witches and priestess of  color and became a clinical herbalist.

Some of the urban legend is true. The voodoo priestess is a Macumba priestess; Macumba is Voodoo and Santeria combined. There was a ritual to create the child and the priestess really did put three guinea peppers in her mouth. The shaman is her lover and second mother to her daughter. 

There was a fourth being  that also gave the girl life, but no one but the mothers and Bondye knew. The mothers never spoke of the fourth being, they were both evasive about the fourth being. The girl can heal quickly, but the other witches and practitioners are as mortal as humans. Her senses are sharp, sharper than a mortal. It is true that the girl went to America. I know all this because I am that girl, my name is Alanza Oliveira.