Dancing in the street and making offerings to the Gods, voodoo practitioners ... According to Haitian folklore, when a person dies, Baron Samedi digs up their grave greets their soul and leads ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti ... spirit Baron Samedi, guardian of the dead. Other Haitians on Sunday remembered dead relatives and asked spirits to grant favors or provide guidance. Voodoo is a ...

I’d read enough about vodou – not racist, Westernised “voodoo” but the real ... Gede during ceremonies honouring the Haitian vodou spirit of Baron Samedi (AFP/Getty) (AFP/Getty Images ...

initially titled “Haiti in Extremis.” And voodoo gives him apt images to work with, from the cult of the Gedes and Baron Samedi, guardians of the dead, who could, through cataclysmic fusions ...

HAITIANS have been celebrating the Day of the Dead festival when voodoo followers remember ... which tradition holds is home to the spirit Baron Samedi, the guardian of the dead.

Haitian Voodoo alone is frightening to many ... would result because the Voodoo god of the underworld, Baron Samedi, was apparently offended by self-inflicted death. “If for some reason ...

Voodoo is ingrained in Haiti's turbulent history and has been ... lives in a watery underworld with the "Prince of Death", Baron Samedi, before being reincarnated in a new body.

They return to Haiti man and wife ... ruins everything.” In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion ...

“They’re all the same thing,” he said. One of his recurring characters was Baron Samedi, a lusty underworld spirit from Haitian voodoo traditions. Holder based his dance work Banda on the ...