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

Sallie Ann Glassman, an American artist, author, and Vodou practitioner born in in Kennebunkport, Maine, describes her heritage as Ukrainian-Jewish.

Mambo Sallie Ann Glassman does not fit the bill of the average New Orleans Voodoo high priestess.

This Jewish woman from Maine is one of New Orleans' most famous current Voodoo practitioners.

Using methods drawn from more than twenty years of practice, Vodou priestess Sallie Ann Glassman shares purification and empowerment rituals for individuals.

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She was born in Kennebunkport, Maine^[2] and is a self-described "Ukrainian Jew from Maine",^[3] and a former member of Ordo Templi Orientis.^[4]

Glassman has been practicing Vodou in New Orleans since 1977.

In 1995, she became one of few white Americans to have been ordained via the traditional Haitian initiation.^[5] She owns the Island of Salvation Botanica, an art gallery with both religious supplies, and Haitian and local artworks.^[6] Glassman has been called one of New Orleans' "most visible practitioners" of vodou.

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Art

Glassman's art is both esoteric and syncretic.^[5] She has produced two major non-traditional tarot packs: the Enochian Tarot, which is derived from the Enochian magical system of Elizabethan magician Doctor John Dee, and the New Orleans Voodoo Taro