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Examples

  • The days of the week are in both languages, but when you get to Saturday it actually says Sunday, although the French word Samedi is correct.

    Ottawa Sun 2010

  • Didier Civil, 37, an artist living and working in Haiti, designed two giant voodoo figures for the front of the parade: Baron Samedi, a voodoo doctor who can raise the dead; and his wife, Gran Brigitte, who protects gravestones and drinks hot peppers.

    Halloween, Haitian Style Arden Dale 2010

  • I looked like Afro-Caribbean voodoo icon Baron Samedi, who was the spirit at the gateway of death.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2012

  • Mr. Civil thought of Samedi and Brigitte and the others soon after parade organizers invited him from Haiti to help.

    Halloween, Haitian Style Arden Dale 2010

  • Practitioners in Haiti visit the tombstones of relatives and pay their respects to Baron Samedi, the god of the dead.

    Day of the Dead celebrations across the world (Photos) Melissa Bell 2010

  • Â While she fights a girl who looks like a lost Crazy 88, he fights his way through a series of action movie rejects, including a four-armed Jason Voorhies looking wacko, and Baron Samedi from whichever James Bond movie that was.

    Review: Rapid Fire Reviews - Stale Candy Edition! | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

  • Baron Samedi was one of the dark gods of death, also worshipped by some vampires, who had as many cults and religious practices as humans.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • “But if the vampires of New Orleans worship Baron Samedi—”

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • Priced at $60 to $245, the faces incorporate villain features such as "danger level" for the Dr. No watch or a skull face for voodoo character Baron Samedi in Live & Let Die.

    Ad Track: Brands cozy up to sixth Bond 2008

  • Beside him danced a vampire who was dressed as Baron Samedi, voodoo god of death—black top hat decorated with little white skulls, bones, and feathers, a white skull mask across his face.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

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