Fictional Parishes
- In the novels Little Altars Everywhere, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, and Ya-Yas in Bloom, author Rebecca Wells created the fictional "Garnet Parish".
- The movie Steel Magnolias was said to take place in the fictional "Chinquapin Parish", likely a suburban parish of Shreveport, Louisiana. However, the movie was shot in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and involved several elements of culture indicative of the town and parish of the same name. For example, the annual Christmas Festival of Lights in Natchitoches is shown, as is Cajun dance styles to a distinctive country-Cajun band (Natchitoches is in the Crossroads cultural region of Louisiana, where southern Louisiana's Catholic Cajun culture meets Protestant Anglo culture of northern Louisiana.)
- Part of Walter Jon Williams' novel The Rift is set in the fictional "Spottswood Parish".
- The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels written by Charlaine Harris and HBO’s True Blood, which is based on the novels, take place in the fictional northwestern Louisiana "Renard Parish".
- In the movie In the Electric Mist, Deputy Jason J. Bayard was from the fictional "St. Clare Parish".
- In the DC Comics Universe, "Belle Reve Parish" is a parish in Louisiana that contains the Bell Reve Penitentiary.
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