Baron Samedi

Baron Samedi

Baron Samedi's manifests as an older, dark skinned man in formal attire, dressed completely in black. He wears a black top hat, black suit and may be smoking one of his beloved cigars. He also wears impenetrable black lensed glasses. The glasses may be missing a lense becuase he possesses two kinds of vision: he simultaneously sees the realms of the living and the dead. Alternatively his glasses have but one lense becuase a penis has but one eye and the phallus is his attribute ( and beca

use of he loves sexual humour and innuendo ). His consort is Madame Brigitte; they may be petitioned together for fertility, protection or to save ailing children. Baron Samedi's attributes are coffins;phalluses; skull and crossbones; shovel;grave;black glasses;cross. Should you wish to invoke Baron Samedi Offerings which please him are, black coffee, plain bread,dry toast,roasted peanuts. He drinks rum in which twenty-one very hot peppers have been steeped, Cigars/Cigarettes, dark glasses. Day of the dead toys, the sexier and more macabre the better; raise a skull and crossbones pirate flag for him;beautiful wrought iron crosses are crafted in his honour. Colours: Black,Red and Purple. Day:Saturday Feasts: 2nd November, Day of The Dead; 24th April. Time: Twilight Tends to be a good time to invoke him or make requests. Numbers: 3, 7, and 21

[source: Encyclopedia of spirits]