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360 baron samdi (Baron Saturday), hed of all the ede, he arrives as a corpse; his body falls ot the ground, stiff.

Baron Samdi, the keeper of the cemeter and the head of all the Gede ( spirits of the dead).

pray, clap, and sing until the crowd is sufficiently heated up to entice a Vodou spirit to join the party, to ride Alourdes. In a trance state from which she will later emerge with little or no memory of what had transpired, her body becomes the horse of the spirit

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posssion-performances are the heart of Vodou ceremony.

Vodou spirits are not models of the well lived life; rather, they mirror the full range of possibilitiesinherent in the particular slice of life over which they preside.

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Lwa Vodou spirits.

Mama Lola

A Vodou Priestess In Brooklyn

Karen McCarthy Brown

University of California press

2010

Bawon Samdi the head of the Gede, who are mischievous, ambivalent spirits who arrive last at Vodou ceremonies and are greeted with joy because they often bring merriment and sometimes coarse, raunchy jokes.

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Lwa or Loa(s) are the Vodou spirits of the Haitian pantheon

they serve as intermediaries between the ultimate God, Bondye, and the humans

Each Lwa is an archetype of a moral principle that he or she represents.

Dambala, supreme, oldest, most repsected, represented by a snake.

(invisible)