Meet a very old spirit named Baron Samedi who was and still is known as one of the loa of Haitian Voodoo or Vodou.. He is famous as leader of Gedés and the Barons.the Baron is an original ghost-busting phantom. Samedi is French for Saturday, the day Jesus the Christ was allegedly dead in a tomb. Samedi the word may be related to the word Zombi or Simbi
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He is ruler of the Cemetery according to Haitian Voodoo and a 32nd degree Mason, a Grand Master in the Celestial Masonic Lodge. Baron Samedi can communicate with the dead and may fend off the reaper. This fearsome phantom banishes annoying ghosts and decides which spirits may visit a grieving loved one. The Baron is a sympathetic healer towards children and has been known to have healed terminally ill children in the past.
Baron Samedi is a showman also a bit brash, he is the link between death and fertility. The guardian of ancestral spirits. He ascertains that all corpses rot in the ground to halt any soul from returning as a brainless Zombie. He enjoys a fine cigar.
The Baron materializes as a mature dark skinned man dressed in black and white formal attire. He wears black sunglasses with one lens missing so he can keep his eyes upon two worlds, the land of the living and the underworld of the dead.
An altar to Baron Samedi in Public Domain
Source & Reference:
A Dictionary of World Mythology. Arthur Cotterell. Oxford University Press, 1997. “Vodou”.
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