These lesser spirits are dressed like The Baron and are as rude and crude but not nearly as charming as their master. Connection to other loa īaron Samedi is the leader of the Gede, loa with particular links to magic, ancestor worship and death. When someone dies, he digs their grave and greets their soul after they have been buried, leading them to the underworld. Baron Samedi can usually be found at the crossroads between the worlds of death and the living. He loves smoking and drinking and is rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth or a glass of rum in his bony fingers. He is married to another powerful spirit known as Maman Brigitte, but often chases after mortal women.

He is notorious for his outrageous behavior, swearing continuously and making filthy jokes to the other spirits.

īaron Samedi spends most of his time in the invisible realm of vodou spirits. ĭue to affiliation with François Duvalier, Baron Samedi is linked to secret societies in the Haitian government and includes them in his domain. Additionally, he is the loa of resurrection, and in the latter capacity he is often called upon for healing by those near or approaching death, as it is only the Baron that can accept an individual into the realm of the dead. He is noted for disruption, obscenity, debauchery, and having a particular fondness for tobacco and rum. The former dictator of Haiti, François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc, modeled his cult of personality on Baron Samedi he was often seen speaking in a deep nasal tone and wearing dark glasses. He is frequently depicted as a skeleton (but sometimes as a black man that merely has his face painted as a skull), and speaks in a nasal voice.

Portrayal īaron Samedi is usually depicted with a top hat, black tail coat, dark glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a corpse dressed and prepared for burial in the Haitian style. He is sometimes identified with Guede Nibo. He is the head of the Gede family of lwa his brothers are Azagon Lacroix and Baron Piquant. He is an lwa of the dead, along with Baron's numerous other incarnations Baron Cimetière, Baron La Croix and Baron Criminel. Cross of Baron La Croixīaron Samedi (English: Baron Saturday), also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the lwa of Haitian Vodou. Rum, cigar, top hat, glasses with missing lensĭeath, tombs, gravestones, cemeteries, dead relatives, obscenities, healing, smoking, drinking, disruption, spiritsĭepiction of Baron Samedi. Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, Folk Catholicism

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