Monkey Island Voodoo Lady

[Randell Magtoto]

VoodooLadyBiographical InformationAliasDeep Gut

Corina (actual true name)StatusAliveFamilyCoronado De Cava - Ex-BoyfriendPhysical InformationSpeciesHumanRaceBlackGenderFemaleHair ColourBlackEye ColourBrownCareer InformationOccupationMambo/Voodooienne Fashion ConsultantSeries InformationAppearance/sThe Secret of Monkey Island

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

The Curse of Monkey Island

Escape from Monkey Island

Tales of Monkey Island

Return to Monkey IslandVoice/sLeilani Jones Wilmore (Curse, Escape, Specials, Return)

Alison Ewing (Tales)

Corina, better known as The Voodoo Lady, is a well-known traveling mambo (Voodoo Priestess) and self-proclaimed fashion consultant. She has provided invaluable advice to Guybrush Threepwood throughout the series, thanks to her extensive knowledge with voodoo curses, magic and the occult. She claimed to have clairvoyance, able to predict Guybrush's fate and actions a number of times throughout the series. She was also attuned with the Force and could sense events happening away.

She was a fairly large woman with a dark complexion. She liked to speak in a dramatic fashion, particularly when it had something to do with Guybrush's quest. She often spoke in riddles and obscure phrases, never quite giving the answers Guybrush needed to fully comprehend his situation. She clearly knew what's good for Guybrush, which has helped him out more times than he could remember.

Her stores were often similarly themed, with large draperies to the sides and a large pot of voodoo potions or soup at arm's length. She has never been known to stay put in one island for very long, and likes to move her operations around the Caribbean when she felt like it.

Guybrush first meets the Voodoo Lady on Mle Island. He finds her store House of Mojo, a voodoo emporium situated in the town center. It specialised in all things Voodoo, with had a number of trinkets could be seen for sale. Guybrush sought her out for her knowledge on how to defeat the evil ghost pirate LeChuck. When the first two speak, she hushes Guybrush, able to guess his name, and whatever it was he was going to ask her. Guybrush was impressed, though thought it had been a trick. The Voodoo Lady remarked that it was no trick, and that she only dealt with the truth. She foresaw that his adventure would lead to the legendary Monkey Island, towards the deep chasms beneath the Giant Monkey Head. She allowed him to take a Rubber Chicken.

When Guybrush traveled to Scabb Island, the Voodoo Lady also happened to move her store there as well. She relocated in the swamp and was only accessible by paddling a coffin across the bog, straight into the jaws of a skull. A specially designed lift would carry the rider inside.

Along with the rest of the residents of the island, the Voodoo Lady was oppressed by Largo LaGrande's embargo. She paid a large sum of her dwindling profits towards this abominable taxation, which he came for regularly even though she told Largo that it was she who had killed LeChuck. She had hoped that someone on the island would collect ingredients for a voodoo doll for her, but no one had been brave enough. When Guybrush visited her, she told him of her idea. Threepwood agreed to help so she gave him a "shopping list" detailing the types of items he would need.

When she received the items she made a doll. She explained that they were not the optimum materials so it would only work at close range. Threepwood returned after confronting Largo, and told her that he had accidentally given Largo a live piece of LeChuck. She told him it was true that he could now be restored and instructed him to continue searching for the treasure of Big Whoop. She gave him a book, Big Whoop: Unclaimed Bonanza or Myth? which she had taken out from Phatt City Library under his name to help him get started.

She also helped Guybrush by making a revitalization potion known as Ash 2 Life, where he used it on the ashes of Rapp Scallion. This allowed Guybrush to learn more about the secrets of Big Whoop. Wally B. Feed had ordered a Love Bomb from the Voodoo Lady and sent Guybrush to fetch it for him, but in the meantime he was captured by LeChuck and the Lady sensed a disturbance in the Force.

After realising that Scabb Island wasn't the most ideal of locations, the Voodoo Lady relocated once more to the swamp on Plunder Island. Her store had a number of amenities, including a special alligator statue, and a bubblegum machine. She was regularly visited by some Voodoo Kids, who enjoyed making harmless paper voodoo dolls in her store's premises. She greatly feared El Pollo Diablo, the demon chicken, and warned those that failed to take his legend seriously.

She offered a great deal of help to Guybrush to help him find the cure for the curse he had inadvertently placed on Elaine Marley. She told him that he required an uncursed ring of equal value to the cursed one, and that he would find one on Blood Island. She also foresaw that he would die there.

Deep Gut was the name used by the Voodoo Lady whilst on Flotsam Island. She acted as a mysterious informant for the local news, supplying the Keelhauler Gazette with much coveted information in the forsaken Flotsam Island.

In his exploits on Flotsam, Guybrush had to provide some raw material for the Keelhauler (in the form of bar brawls, finding of buried Porcelain Power Pirate figurines and a ship capture), to spice up the dwindling local news scenario. Only then did Davey Nipperkin give him a map with directions and a password to meet Deep Gut.

It was revealed in Tales of Monkey Island that over the years, the Voodoo Lady had apparently been at the center of the rivalry between Guybrush Threepwood and LeChuck, forcing them against each other for her own mysterious motives.

The Voodoo Lady is a recurring side-character who often gives advice to Guybrush Threepwood. Her importance in the first game is somewhat fleeting as the game can be completed without talking to her, but in all her subsequent appearances she plays a key role to the player's progress.

As mentioned above, meeting or talking to the Voodoo Lady is not necessary for completing the first game, but if the player chooses to visit her, she will tell Guybrush his future, though somewhat hazily; she sees the Cannibals either helping or eating Guybrush, and she sees him inside a giant monkey. Visiting her shop is a necessity only in order to acquire the rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle, needed to reach Hook Island.

She plays a more vital role in the second game where she has relocated her place of business, The International House of Mojo, to the swamp on Scabb Island. In this game she helps Guybrush put together a voodoo doll of Largo LaGrande in order to drive him off the island. She also sets Guybrush on his search for Big Whoop when Largo snatches LeChuck's beard in hopes of resurrecting him as a zombie. Her final involvements include the resurrection of Rapp Scallion and giving Guybrush a bag of voodoo goods intended for Wally.

In the third game she has once more relocated to a new island, this time Plunder Island. Her new place of business, Voodoo and Things (formerly just Voodoo), is located on a ship that has mysteriously ended up hanging from the trees of the swamp (Guybrush suggests it was thrown there by a typhoon). She also seems to be friends to a local group of unseen voodoo kids who make paper Voodoo Dolls at her house. She once again assists Guybrush by giving him vital information about how to break the curse on Elaine and where to find a pure diamond ring, but she doesn't supply him with any inventory items. An inconsistency in this game is that she tells Guybrush he never should have gone after Big Whoop, even though she told him go after it in the first place.

In the fourth game she has moved back to Mle Island and this time sits upon a mysterious rotating throne to hide from the people in the shop. She once more gives advice to Guybrush and helps to find Grandpa Marley's wedding gifts from amongst the junk in the safe-deposit chest. She also explains the history and power of the Ultimate Insult, which she describes as ten times more powerful and dangerous than Big Whoop.

The Voodoo Lady re-appears in the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island, taking up on residence on Flotsam Island in a Creepy Shack. She is known on the island as Deep Gut (a possible reference to Deep Throat, a famous secretive informant) and guards access to her shack with a password. Guybrush meets her once again and she tells him to find La Esponja Grande, a voodoo sea sponge that will cure Guybrush and the infected pirates of the Caribbean of the Pox of LeChuck.

Tales elaborates on some of the Voodoo Lady's previously unknown past. It is revealed that she was once romantically involved with a man called Coronado De Cava, who was searching for La Esponja Grande; they separated when his quest for the sea sponge became an obsession. The Voodoo Lady sends Guybrush to seek him out, giving him a locket which contains a photograph of the two. The same (and complete) photograph and a sketch of the Voodoo Lady appear in De Cava's old island shelter in the Jerkbait Islands.

In "Lair of the Leviathan", Guybrush finally encounters De Cava and the mysterious explorer's relationship within the Voodoo Lady appears to parallel Guybrush's (though De Cava states that he fell in love with her, unlike Guybrush), in regards to being sent on perilous quests and being given magical and practical aide. The locket reveals itself to be a powerful intermediate device between the Voodoo Lady and whoever appears in the opposite picture, giving her the power to possess that person. Guybrush is able to reverse this power and for a small portion of the episode possesses the Voodoo Lady. Through this he is able to frighten the Marquis De Singe into giving up the secrets of learning the manatee language.

The Voodoo Lady returns in person in "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood", when she is arrested for apparently being the malevolent force that has manipulated LeChuck throughout the Monkey Island series (according to LeChuck who presents the Voodoo Lady's journal). In jail she gives Guybrush a map which will help him increase the power of La Esponja Grande, and gives ambiguous answers in regards to the charges. Taking into account the events at the conclusion of the episode, it is considered unlikely that LeChuck's accusations are entirely true.

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