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New Orleans -..Voodoo.! One of the exotic special features New Orleans is naturally also the Voodoo - cult. Even if one does not believe in it, a certain maintenance value one cannot deny to the whole one.  Here a small, although unprofessional conception, the most important figures of the Voodoo - cult.
Baron Samedi is one the Guédés and is in relationship with Baron Cimitère and Baron La Croix. These two are the leaders at the interface between real and mirror-image-ritual world.
Baron Samedi goes normally dressed in black frack and cylinder, sun glasses and cigar smoking into action.
The Loa's of stories
Maya of them retells the story of many Guédés dressed in top has and smoked glasses decending on the presidential palace.
It seems that some years ago, more under the regime of President Borno, there suddenly appeared " formally " costume of the lord the into the streets of port outer Prince a crowd of Ghedes (all of them houngans possessed by Ghede) wearing: the tall top hats, long black tail coats, smoked glasses, cigarettes or cigars, and of canes. Enormous crowd naturally collected them, and about on joined them in their march to the national Palace. They all took the guards by surprise, and, singing, swerved throught the gates and up the drive and to the door itself, where they demanded money of the President. President Borno, who is reputed to have been sympatheic to of Voudoun ritiual (secretly so) and yet feared bourgeois opininon which in great dilemma. He finally gave in, obstensibly merely to quiet the mobilization, and the Ghedes with their supporters left the grounds. But Ghede had make his Point. Death, who has consumed in such a way many heroes, bows before NO one and wants remind even the most illustrious that one day he too wants consumed. Thus Ghede had gottenhis money and went off to gorge himself, singing... from Divine Horsemen by Maya of them [ p107] 
Who is interested in more information. Here some Links to the topic Voodoo:
- Isle of Salvation Botanica
- 835 Piety Street
- New Orleans, LA 70117
- 504/948 9961
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