| “ | 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, spring, fertility, healing, poetry, and smithcraft.
Baron Samedi
A God of the dead, death, magic 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 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 Celtic Goddess of springtime, fire, fertility, healing, poetry, smithery, craftsmanship, medicine, knowledge, wisdom, warfare, arts and crafts, cattle and other livestock, sacred wells, and serpents.
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.
"The Ways of the Dead"
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