BARON SAMEDI
Updated 05-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: baron Samedi, also known as baron Samdi, is one of the loa of Haitian Vodou . he is the head of the Guédé family of loa . his wife is the lo baron Samedi spends most of his time in the invisible realm of vodou spirits . he is notorious for his outrageous behavior, swearing continuously and making filthy jokes . when someone dies, he digs their grave and greets their soul after they have been buried, leading them to the underworld . lesser spirits are dressed like the Baron and are as rude and crude but not nearly as the Baron’s powers are especially great when it comes to Vodou curses and black magic . he also ensures that all corpses rot in the ground to stop any soul from being brought back as a the Baron requires a Vodou ceremony to help him cross over into this world . he may simply ask for a small gift of cigars, rum, black coffee, grilled peanuts, or bread . Arthur Cotterell. Oxford University Press, 1997. “Vodou”. The Voodoo Gods. Maya Deren. Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol and Spirit. UK: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-70423-7.