Category: Lwa

There are lady barons, too. In Dominican Vodou, La Barona is Queen of the Cemetery. To some extent her role corresponds to that of Madame…

Baron LaCroix, Baron Samedi’s brother, is the cemetery groundskeeper: he maintains the graves. He is generally not invoked but avoided as he allegedly kills on…

Baron Del Cementario Although technically Baron Del Cementario’s name is the Spanish version of the French Baron Cimitière, they are not the same spirit. In…

Justice awaits beyond the grave. Sometimes justice emerges from the grave. Baron Kriminel is a fierce spirit of justice. He is custodian of the graveyard,…

Baron Cimitière is a grand magician, master magus, and healer extraordinaire. He holds court in the cemetery at midnight. He is part of a triad…

In Haitian voodoo, a loa (deified spirit of the dead) who brings good fortune and money; symbolized by a horned and coiled snake. List of…

In Haitian voodoo, the loa (deified spirit of the dead) of gardens and mountains, who is offered goats in sacrifice. Often the goats are black.…

Baron Samedi : Master of the Cemetery Baron Samedi is the leader of the Barons and possibly the Gedés. He presides over a sprawling, confusing,…

Papa Gedé is the leader of the Gedés, landlord of the cemetery, its spiritual superintendent. Some people use this name to indicate Baron Samedi. Some…

Ezili Dantor is Ezili Freda’s hardworking black sister. She is independent and beholden to no one. Ezili Dantor is sick of crying. She’s had enough…