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Culture or Region: Afro-Caribbean traditions

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Baron Cimitiere

Baron Cimitière is a Haitian Vodou cemetery spirit associated with graves, burial ground authority and the Baron and Gede families…

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Baron La Croix

Baron La Croix is a Haitian Vodou Baron associated with the cemetery cross, the dead, graveyard authority and the crossing…

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Baron Samedi

Baron Samedi is one of the best-known Haitian Vodou lwa of death, cemeteries, healing, obscenity, humor and the boundary between…

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Gede

Gede is the Haitian Vodou family of lwa associated with the dead, cemeteries, ancestors, sexuality, healing, humor and the social…

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Jumbie

Jumbie is a broad Caribbean term for ghosts, spirits and dangerous supernatural presences whose forms vary across Guyana, Trinidad, the…

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