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Baron Samedi | |
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 Veve for Baron Samedi | |
| Loa of the Death and Fertility | |
| Venerated in | Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, Folk Catholicism |
| Feast | November 2 |
| Attributes | Rum, cigar, top hat, glasses with missing lens |
| Patronage | Death, tombs, gravestones, cemeteries, dead relatives, obscenities, healing, smoking, drinking, disruption, spirits |
Baron Samedi (English: Baron Saturday), also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the lwa of Haitian Vodou. He is a lwa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix and Baron Criminel.
He is the head of the Gede family of lwa; his brothers are Azagon Lacroix and Baron Piquant. He is sometimes identified with Guede Nibo.[1]
- ^ Courlander, Harold (1944). "Gods of the Haitian Mountains". The Journal of Negro History. 29 (3): 348, 355–356, 361–362. doi:10.2307/2714821. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2714821. Retrieved 15 April 2024.