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Challenges Facing Occult Shops...
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Specializing in the Shadows
Graves And Graves Agency works with various occult businesses, including tarot readings, palmistry, seance rooms, mediumship, bookings for ghost & vampire tours, and esoteric & magickal supplies. Let us illuminate your path to an enriching experience.
"Supernatural Commercial Space"
Two of our hi-octane occult businesses are located @ 521 Saint Philip Street in the French Quarter, near the French Market. It has a history unlike any other in the city...
This historic building, built in 1923, was the home of the “Witch’s Workshop” operated by Priestess Mary Oneida Toups, a White Witch, known to many as one of the most powerful Witches to have practiced in New Orleans. To this day, the building, which was also the first registered Church of Witchcraft, still hosts a sacred pentacle, painted by Mary herself. That pentacle is a portal which connects us to another space in time. This portal brings entities of light, love and positive-healing energy. It is also home to a "Shop Pet" who may present himself to certain customers by rubbing his nose against their bare legs to make them aware of his presence.
Mary Oneida Toups:
The White Witch Queen of New Orleans
Mary Oneida Toups was born on April 25, 1928, in Meridian, Mississippi, to Arthur Hodgin and Mary Ellen Killing. She moved to New Orleans in 1968, where she became a prominent figure in the occult community. Toups was married to Albert Toups, a high-ranking Freemason who ran a bar on Decatur Street. In 1972, she chartered the Religious Order of Witchcraft, the first coven to be registered as an official religious organization in Louisiana. Toups was known for her Western ceremonialist magic and her two witchcraft shops in the French Quarter. She published the occult text "Magick High and Low" in 1975. Toups passed away in September 1981 from stomach cancer.
Her legacy continues through the Religious Order of Witchcraft, which she founded. The order, which often gathered at Popp Fountain in City Park, practiced Western ceremonialist magic, not Afro-Caribbean rooted practices like Voodoo and Hoodoo that are commonly associated with New Orleans. Later in 1972, Toups caught the attention of writer Howard Jacobs, who wrote about her in his column Remoulade, after she publicly defended witchcraft when the practice had been blamed for a murder in Opelousas.
Toups is also mentioned in the 1994 memoir Under A Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper, and in the book Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse by Brad Steiger. On the first episode of American Horror Story: Coven, titled Bitchcraft, Fiona Goode (played by Jessica Lange) references Toups and her coven practicing witchcraft at Popp Fountain in City Park.
SECOND SKIN Leather
Years Later the building became home to a shop called 'SECOND SKIN', which catered to a gay leather customer base and featured a piercing parlor on the second floor in what was once Mary's home. Second Skin had a good run from the mid-90s to just before Katrina weekend (August 29th, 2005).
The building is now home to the two amazing shops seen below: Hands of Fate and The Haunted Sax
Hands of Fate
:: spiritual services ::
At Hands of Fate, we are dedicated to bringing more awareness to spiritual and emotional healing, shadow work, providing the tools to help in your learning in trusting your intuition, and learning to connect with the Universe. As the veil between the spirit world and the physical world thins, it becomes easier for us to live out our soul purpose, find fulfillment.
Hands of Fate was conceived to bring together a community-centered host of spiritual services including mediumship, tarot, palmistry, and spiritual healing consultations. At the back of the shop is the Seance Room.
The shop is also available for Photoshoots, Film Productions, and Privet Events.
Mediumship
Tarot readings
Palmistry
Runes & Bones
Astrology
Samuel Bowling
Brick Bishop
Charlie the Love Witch
The Séance Room
Where visitors can contact, interact and communicate with the dead.
Each seance will last approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours. We will have up to 12 people sitting with intention and allowing for messages to come through.
Each seance is different and specifically catered to the people in the room.
The Haunted Sax
:: past life emporium ::
Welcome my darlings. You've strayed from the well-worn paths of the French Quarter, and that's no accident. The place we're about to enter isn't found on maps or in tourist guides. It reveals itself to those it chooses. Tucked into a side street, hidden by layers of illusion and time, stands a place even many lifelong locals have never seen-The Haunted Sax. This is not a shop you stumble upon. It is found by invitation of fate. Some say it exists slightly out of step with the present-a time warped relic sealed in an invisible fold of the Quarter. Others call it a glamoured space, cloaked in spiritual sleight, seen only by those the spirits allow. You could walk past it a hundred times and never notice the small cryptic sign, the old wooden doors, the flicker of candlelight burning behind barred windows in the night. But if you're standing here now, it means you were meant to.
The Story of Paulette, The Haunted Sax
One day, the owner and buyer for the shop came to town with a new treasure. It was an interesting looking saxophone. I immediately felt something different in this item. I closed it up and put it in another room, planning on doing some research before putting it up for sale. I had a woman rush in exclaiming there was an angry woman in the shop. I looked around knowing I was the only person in the shop, and a woman. I said "No, I'm good." She proceeded to tell me the angry woman's name was Paula, then Paulina, now she was telling her name was Paulette. That's when I knew who she was talking about the saxophone, because the name "Paulette" is engraved on it.
Then the pandemic struck, and we were closed for what seemed like ages. Upon re-opening, I had a young man walk in not really knowing what he was doing in the shop. I asked if he played an instrument. He said, "No, but I use to hang out in my high school band room by myself when it was unoccupied." It gave him a serene feeling, kind of like how he felt when he walked in our little shop. I asked him how old his school was. It was ancient. I asked him where he was from. He said a small town, merely a dot on the map, Crystal Springs, PA. I looked at him and told him that I'd like to introduce him to Paulette. She was also from there.
We cleaned her up and displayed her in a prominent position close to the door. Paulette is happy now because she gets to welcome people to the shop, and to the city.
Haunted Dolls:
Meet our free sprits who occupy various dolls and marionettes. We have set up many dolls in the shop for spirits to inhabit (or just rest in). We are exploring their lives and telling their stories. Most of these dolls are up for adoption, but you must realize that some spirits may or may not leave with you. They have free will and free reign just as they did in life (sometimes their spirits are a little freer) so they do not come with a guarantee.
The Haunted Wedding Dress:
Haunted Objects:
Portal:
An in-person experience...
We are bound as caretakers and witnesses...
On the premises we have a universe-created energy portal. Through the portal comes energy for healing, wisdom, and celebration. This is an "inter-dimensional train station" for traveling sprits.
Meet the Witches of The Haunted Sax...
Two sisters. Two paths. One enchanted portal in the heart of the French Quarter.
Together with my sister, I keep the threshold open at The Haunted Sax—a place where past and present breathe together. We are happy to help you book city, ghost, swamp, and cemetery tours through us. We also book pam readers, mediums and seances.
The Boozy Witch
Spirit Communicant | Mourning Doll Medium | Ritualist of the Beautiful Sadness
Partly because I adore wine and craft cocktails—especially those steeped in the rich, herbaceous lore of New Orleans. But mostly because I believe in living deliciously: through story, sensual ritual, and sacred beauty.
I am drawn to cemeteries, cathedrals, vintage hand mirrors, forgotten corners of time, and whispers through the veil. My world is wrapped in lace, lit by candlelight, and steeped in slow, sacred remembering.
My sacred calling is as The Mourning Doll Medium—a voice for spirits who speak through porcelain vessels, each doll a conduit for unfinished stories and soul healing.
I don't walk a traditional witch's path. I follow an eclectic current, guided by intuition and divine feminine memory.
The Boujie Witch
Co-Proprietress | The Crone of the Wounded Veil | Keeper of Glamour | Ritual Curator
The Boojie Witch moves through the world as The Crone of the Wounded Veil—a figure of wisdom, refinement, and unapologetic opulence. A little bougie, a little snobbish—but she's earned every bit of it through a life lived fully, fiercely, and without apology. Her glamour is her power, and her elegance is her armor.
She doesn't chase trends or lean into occult aesthetics—her style is her own: timeless, layered, and rich with the kind of beauty that only comes from surviving the fire and claiming the crown.
As co-proprietress of The Haunted Sax, she brings poise to the portal and reminds spirits and seekers alike: healing can shimmer. Wisdom can wear pearls. And sometimes, power looks like red lipstick and silk gloves
The Boojie Witch moves through the world as The Crone of the Wounded Veil—a figure of wisdom, refinement, and unapologetic opulence. A little bougie, a little snobbish—but she's earned every bit of it through a life lived fully, fiercely, and without apology. Her glamour is her power, and her elegance is her armor.
She doesn't chase trends or lean into occult aesthetics—her style is her own: timeless, layered, and rich with the kind of beauty that only comes from surviving the fire and claiming the crown.
As co-proprietress of The Haunted Sax, she brings poise to the portal and reminds spirits and seekers alike: healing can shimmer. Wisdom can wear pearls. And sometimes, power looks like red lipstick and silk gloves.
Asbury Park Halloween House
The Asbury Park Halloween House
1107 Ridge Avenue, Asbury Park
The display has been going on for 15 years and has over 3500 lights and 15 tombstones, along with inflatables, projectors, fog machines, music, and animatronics, and gets bigger every year.
Tours of the home are available.
Photos credit © Philip Caporaso 2025