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Baron Cimetière is one of the Gede, a spirit of the dead, along with
Baron Samedi Baron Samedi ( en, 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 ...
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Baron La Croix Baron La Croix ( ht, Bawon Lakwa), is one of the Gede, a lwa of the dead and sexuality,Torres, Rafael Agustí. "Loas y Vèvès del Vudú", p. 15 (in Spanish) along with Baron Samedi and Baron Cimetière in Vodou. He is syncretized with Saint ...
in Vodou. He is said to be the guardian of the cemetery, protecting its graves.Torres, Rafael Agustí. "Loas y Vèvès del Vudú", p. 14 (in Spanish) He wears a tuxedo with tails and a top hat. He has expensive taste, smoking cigars and drinking wine and fine liquor. He is just as crass as the other Gede, but shows polite manners and an upper-class air while doing so.


Other manifestations

Brave Gede is the doorman between the world of the living and the afterlife, guardian of the cemetery gate. He keeps the dead in and the living out.


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Haitian Vodou gods Death gods Liminal gods {{Deity-stub