# Voodoo

Adja
see "Adjassou-Linguetor"

Adja Bosu
see "Adjassou-Linguetor"

Adjassou-Linguetor
In Voodoo, Adjassou-Linguetor (Adja, Adha Bosu) is a loa with protruberant eys and a bad temper who governs spring water.

Agwe
In Voodoo, Agwe is the goddess of the sea.

Aida-Wedo
Aida-Wedo is the voodoo rainbow snake loa.

Clermeil
In Voodoo, Clermeil is a loa in the form of a white-man. When angry he makes rivers overflow.

Congo
In Voodoo, Congo is a handsome but lethargic and slow-witted loa.

Damballa
In Voodoo, Damballa is a loa who governs snakes and floods and can cure all illness.

Diable Tonnere
In Voodoo, Diable Tonnere is a powerful loa.

Diablesse
In Voodoo, Diablesses are the spirits of women who died as virgins. They are forced to purge the sin of dieing a virgin by living in the woods for many years before they will be allowed into heaven.

Diejuste
In Voodoo, Diejuste is a benevolant loa.

Erzilie
In Voodoo, Erzilie is the goddess of sexual love.

Gangan
In Voodoo, a gangan is an inferior shaman unable to reach hougan.

Ghede
Ghede, in the original myths of Haiti, was the god of love, sex incarnate. In later, Voodoo myth he was amalgamated with Baron Samedi, god of death. He kept his earlier lustful ways, and a fondness for rum and feasting. He was a dandy, always wearing a black tail-coat, a top hat and sunglasses, twirling a cane and smoking a cigar or a cigarette in a long holder. He loved to dance, and swept his followers away into the ecstasy and trance of dancing. But the dance, which originally was a phallic ritual of birth, had now become a dance of death: Baron Samedi's orgies always ended (for his mortal followers) at the crossroads between this world and the Underworld, and the way they went was down. Because Ghede was Guardian of the Crossroads, he knew all the secrets of magic, and had second hearing and second sight. He could be consulted for advice - often on questions of fertility, either of humans, crops or animals. The questioner made blood-sacrifice and asked the priest questions to put to Ghede, and the god answered in the patterns of rum-drops spilled in the dust, or in the hll of dice or the turning of Tarot cards. The advice was often frightening and apparently ridiculous, but it was always true and you neglected it at your peril.

Grand Bois
In Voodoo, Grand Bois is the loa of the forces of nature.

Guedes
In Voodoo, guedes are the spirits of the dead.

Houngans
In Voodoo, the houngans are the priests.

Ibo
In Voodoo, Ibo is a handsome, friendly loa.

Ibo Loa
In Voodoo, the Ibo Loa are gods and spirits.

Jean
In Voodoo, Jean is a stern, but nervous loa who rules the thunder and earthquakes.

L'inglesou
In Voodoo, L'inglesou is a fierec looking loa who lives among rocks and in ravines and kills those who offend him.

Legba
In Fon mythology, Legba is the youngest son of Lisa and Mawu. He is the god of fate.
In Voodoo, Legba is one of the two gods who open the road to the spirit world.

Limba
In Voodoo, Limba is a rough male loa who lives among the rocks and persecutes people. He has an insatiable appetite and is said to kill and eat his devotees.

Loa
In voodoo, the loa are spirits. They may be either male or female.

Lutin
In Voodoo, a lutin is the ghost of an unbaptised child.

Maman Brigitte
In voodoo, Maman Brigitte is the loa of death and cemeteries.

Marassa Jumeaux
In Voodoo, Marassa Jumeaux are the ghosts of dead twins.

Mombu
In Voodoo, Mombu is a stammering loa who causes storms of torrential rain.

Nago Shango
In Voodoo, Nago Shango is a powerful and lively loa.

Ogoun
In Voodoo, Ogoun is a warrior and blacksmith loa. He is especially fond of rum and tobacco.

Petro loa
In Voodoo, the Petro loa are a group of easily annoyed spirits symbolised by the whip.

Pie
In Voodoo, Pie is a grave soldier loa who lies at the bottom of ponds and rivers. He makes floods.

Rada loa
In Voodoo, the Rada loa are the chief deities.

Revenant
In Voodoo, a revenant is a spirit of the dead who feeling neglected returns to plague their living relatives.

Samedi
In Voodoo, Samedi is an important loa, god of the cemetery.

Serviteur
In Voodoo, a serviteur is someone who becomes posessed by a loa during a ceremony.

Sobo
In Voodoo, Sobo is a loa who looks like a handsome soldier.

Sousson-Pannan
In Voodoo, Sousson-Pannan is an ugly loa covered in sores. He is totaly evil and drinks spirits and blood.

Ti Jean Quinto
In Voodoo, Ti Jean Quinto is an insolent loa in policeman form who lives under bridges.

Ville au Camp
In Voodoo, Ville au Camp is the underwater capital of the loas.

Zobops
In Voodoo, the zobops are an order of male sorcerers.

Zombie
In Voodoo, a zombie is the spirit of a person killed by a sorcerer and resurected by evil houngans.

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