There, they evoke spirit Baron Samedi, guardian of the dead. Other Haitians on Sunday remembered dead relatives and asked spirits to grant favors or provide guidance. Voodoo is a blend of African ...

Dancing in the street and making offerings to the Gods, voodoo practitioners have been ... According to Haitian folklore, when a person dies, Baron Samedi digs up their grave greets their soul ...

In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion, in a black bowler hat, morning coat and goggles. In an ...

which combine elements of Christianity and voodoo practices. In the center of the downtown cemetery, where a large black cross had been installed to represent "Baron Samedi," the spirit of death, ...

Holder played iconic top-hatted voodoo villain Baron Samedi in Live and Let Die - the first of the James Bond movies to star Roger Moore. Geoffrey Richard Holder was born in Port of Spain ...

author and character actor best known as Baron Samedi, the terrifying voodoo priest with the top hat and deep maniacal laugh in the Bond film Live and Let Die (1973). Though Dr Kananga (played by ...

a Caribbean-themed musical in which he first played Baron Samedi. A top-hatted spirit of death in Haitian Voodoo culture, the character made full use of the actor's imposing physique and physical ...