Louisiana
regionReal-world: Louisiana, USA
The southern state whose swamp-priests chanted the ritual phrase to their kindred idols, and whose cult-members were of mixed blood and marine pursuits.
Louisiana figures in the record as the home ground of the swamp cult: what both the Eskimo wizards of the far north and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was, in substance, the same ritual phrase.
The narrator, weighing the deaths that shadowed the inquiry, did not forget the mixed blood and marine pursuits of the cult-members in Louisiana, and would not have been surprised to learn of secret methods and poison needles as ruthless and as anciently known as the cryptic rites and beliefs.
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“What, in substance, both the Eskimo wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
“I did not forget the mixed blood and marine pursuits of the cult-members in Louisiana, and would not be surprized to learn of secret methods and poison needles as ruthless and as anciently known as the cryptic rites and beliefs.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 2, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse