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Examples

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

    Hugh Muir's diary 2012

  • “I call upon the powers of Gédé in the names of Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte and ask for your help in unmaking this unholy trick.”

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • 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

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

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • 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

  • Though the full-on postbop improvising of both Lourau and pianist Laurent Coq was generally more compelling than the compositions of either, the helldriving melody of Baron Samedi was a memorable highlight.

    Bath festival 2010

  • The painting is by Pierre Joseph Valcin and it features the personifications (although I didn't know it at the time) of the voodoo figures Cousin Zaka and Baron Samedi.

    Amy Wilentz: Haiti and the Depths of Darkness 2010

  • Baron Samedi, loa of the crossroads, god of the cemeteries, please open the way for me.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • This King of Pop, it must be said, is the Haitian version, with an even more skull-like physiognomy than MJ's and a felt chapeau worthy of the Baron Samedi, voodoo's Lord of the Graveyard.

    Amy Wilentz: Frantz Zephirin's Heroic Portraits Amy Wilentz 2010

  • Baron Samedi, I ask you please to accept this man into Guinee.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

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