Sallie Ann Glassman

Sallie Ann Glassman (born 1954) is an American practitioner of Vodou, a writer, and an artist.

[5] She owns the Island of Salvation Botanica, an art gallery with both religious supplies, and Haitian and local artworks.

[9] The cards feature prominent Orisha divinities (Obatala, Oshun, Ogun, Yemaya, and Shango), classical Haitian Vodou spirits (Damballah-Wedo, Ezili-Freda, and Guede), and priests of Louisiana Voodoo such as Marie Laveau and Dr.

[9] The tarot cards came with a book co-written with Louis Martinié, an advocate for New Orleans style Voodoo in the spectrum of New World religious practices.

[10][11] Glassman was mentioned in a 1995 article in The New York Times,[1] and in a 2003 MSNBC interview, she claimed she cured her own cancer using Vodou in 2003.

Original location of Island of Salvation Botanica on Piety Street in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans adorned with artwork by Glassman; the Botanica has since moved to larger quarters in the New Orleans Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue in Faubourg Marigny .