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Baron Samedi is a Haitian loa and leader of the [[wikipedia:Guédé|Guédé]] family of loa, who represent death and fertility. He is an intermediary between [[Wikipedia:Haitian Vodou|Bondye]] and humanity, both for resurrection and for leading the dead to the [[underworld]].
 
Baron Samedi is a Haitian loa and leader of the [[wikipedia:Guédé|Guédé]] family of loa, who represent death and fertility. He is an intermediary between [[Wikipedia:Haitian Vodou|Bondye]] and humanity, both for resurrection and for leading the dead to the [[underworld]].
   
Baron Samedi's wife, Maman Brigitte, is also a loa. She originates from Ireland and is the only white Haitian Vodou god. She is associated with [[wikipedia:Brigid|Brigid]], the Celtic goddess of spring, fertility, healing, poetry, and smithcraft.
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Baron Samedi's wife, Maman Brigitte, is also a loa. She originates from Ireland and is the only white Haitian Vodou god. She is associated with [[wikipedia:Brigid|Brigid]], the Celtic Goddess of the sun, the dawn, fire, spring, fertility, healing, knowledge, wisdom, poetry, medicine, smithcraft, warfare, arts and crafts, cattle and other livestock, sacred wells, and serpents.
   
 
== Baron Samedi ==
 
== Baron Samedi ==
 
[[File:Baron samedi ways of the dead.jpg|thumb|left]]
 
[[File:Baron samedi ways of the dead.jpg|thumb|left]]
A god of death but the life of the party, Baron Samedi is the chef at New Orleans’ rowdy Le Coq Noir—where both the living and the dead, humans and gods alike, come to imbibe and dine. He enjoys disruption and debauchery. Although married to Maman Brigitte and deeply in love with her, he has a joyous habit of stepping out on his wife.
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A God of the dead, death, magic, sex and the underworld, but he's the life of the party, and the chef at New Orleans’ rowdy Le Coq Noir—where both the living and the dead, humans and gods alike, come to imbibe and dine. He enjoys disruption and debauchery. Although married to Maman Brigitte and deeply in love with her, he has a joyous habit of stepping out on his wife.
   
 
== Maman Brigitte ==
 
== Maman Brigitte ==
 
[[File:Maman brigitte 2x05.jpg|thumb|right]]
 
[[File:Maman brigitte 2x05.jpg|thumb|right]]
Maman Brigitte is the female counterpart to and wife of Baron Samedi. Goddess of death and transition, she helps spirits celebrate and embrace the afterlife. Quick-witted, sexy and full of life, she has a playful spirit and a roaring temper, and she shares a hedonistic dynamic with her adulterous husband.
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Maman Brigitte is the female counterpart to and wife of Baron Samedi. Goddess of life, death, transition, justice, motherhood, fertility, cemeteries, crosses, gravestones, women, souls of deceased relatives, obscenities and passion. She helps spirits celebrate and embrace the afterlife. Quick-witted, sexy and full of life, she is a playful spirit with a roaring temper, and she shares a hedonistic dynamic with her adulterous husband. She is the only "white" loa in the entire Vodun pantheon and is originally from Ireland. Her character is based on Saint Brigid of Kildare, whose name is derived from Brigid the Celtic Goddess.
   
   
 
== Significance in series ==
 
== Significance in series ==
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=== "[[The Beguiling Man]]" ===
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When [[Laura]] vomits up some of her liquefying insides, she promises [[Sweeney]] he can have the coin whether she falls apart or finds a way to get her life back. Sweeney mentions he might have another option other than [[Easter]] to help her get her life back: the old Baron.
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=== "[[Muninn]]" ===
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At [[Ibis and Jacquel Funeral Parlor]], [[Ibis]] is busy putting [[Laura]] back together, eating pieces of her as he works. Laura worries about how much longer she will have before her body falls irreparably apart. [[Wednesday]] invites her to come with him to find [[Argus Panoptes]], someone who might be able to help her condition while [[Sweeney]] invites Laura to join him in New Orleans to meet the Baron. Laura opts to go with Wednesday.
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=== "[[The Ways of the Dead]]" ===
 
=== "[[The Ways of the Dead]]" ===
 
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Brigitte knows that with every breath, every cell I worship only her. The most beautiful, interesting, sexy, and powerful woman I have ever come across. And when she's not around, I fuck a lot of other women.

–Baron Samedi to Laura, "The Ways of the Dead"

Baron Samedi and Maman Brigitte are married Haitian loas living in New Orleans.

Background

Baron Samedi is a Haitian loa and leader of the Guédé family of loa, who represent death and fertility. He is an intermediary between Bondye and humanity, both for resurrection and for leading the dead to the underworld.

Baron Samedi's wife, Maman Brigitte, is also a loa. She originates from Ireland and is the only white Haitian Vodou god. She is associated with Brigid, the Celtic Goddess of the sun, the dawn, fire, spring, fertility, healing, knowledge, wisdom, poetry, medicine, smithcraft, warfare, arts and crafts, cattle and other livestock, sacred wells, and serpents.

Baron Samedi

Baron samedi ways of the dead

A God of the dead, death, magic, sex and the underworld, but he's the life of the party, and the chef at New Orleans’ rowdy Le Coq Noir—where both the living and the dead, humans and gods alike, come to imbibe and dine. He enjoys disruption and debauchery. Although married to Maman Brigitte and deeply in love with her, he has a joyous habit of stepping out on his wife.

Maman Brigitte

Maman brigitte 2x05

Maman Brigitte is the female counterpart to and wife of Baron Samedi. Goddess of life, death, transition, justice, motherhood, fertility, cemeteries, crosses, gravestones, women, souls of deceased relatives, obscenities and passion. She helps spirits celebrate and embrace the afterlife. Quick-witted, sexy and full of life, she is a playful spirit with a roaring temper, and she shares a hedonistic dynamic with her adulterous husband. She is the only "white" loa in the entire Vodun pantheon and is originally from Ireland. Her character is based on Saint Brigid of Kildare, whose name is derived from Brigid the Celtic Goddess.


Significance in series

"The Beguiling Man"

When Laura vomits up some of her liquefying insides, she promises Sweeney he can have the coin whether she falls apart or finds a way to get her life back. Sweeney mentions he might have another option other than Easter to help her get her life back: the old Baron.

"Muninn"

At Ibis and Jacquel Funeral Parlor, Ibis is busy putting Laura back together, eating pieces of her as he works. Laura worries about how much longer she will have before her body falls irreparably apart. Wednesday invites her to come with him to find Argus Panoptes, someone who might be able to help her condition while Sweeney invites Laura to join him in New Orleans to meet the Baron. Laura opts to go with Wednesday.

"The Ways of the Dead"

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Notes and trivia

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