Haitian

Murat Brierre

Haiti 1938-1988
Bawon Samdi 73.0009

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Bawon Samdi is the head of the Gede (family of the spirits of the dead). He is concerned with funerals and cemeteries. It is only with his cooperation and that of his family of spirits that an ancestor may be saved from magicians who would turn him into a zonbi (a mindless automaton working as a slave). As the leader of the spirits of the dead he is usually associated with the skull and crossbones.

 

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