Maman Brigitte. She is The Lady of the cemetery, protectress of the gravestones and mistress of healing. She is sexual, rude and charming as her husband.

Maman Brigitte, The Lady of the Cemetery is the beautiful wife of Baron Samedi. Together they lead the Ghede family. She drinks piman, raw rum infused with 21 hot peppers. It is said to be so hot no mortal can taste it. Like Baron, she is also known for obscenities, wild dances, and raw sexuality. Maman Brigitte always speaks from the heart and has no patience for fools, so she often swears and uses filthy language.

Maman Brigitte is one of the only white Loa in Vodou. She is one of the Loa who wasn’t brought to Haiti from Africa. Her origins are in Ireland and she is strongly tied to the Celtic goddess Brigid (goddess of poetry, smithcraft, and healing). She was incorporated to Vodou after Irish women sentenced for crimes were sent to work on sugar plantations alongside African women.

Maman Brigitte is pictured as a beauty with red-gold hair and emerald green eyes. Her colors are black and purple, and she is represented by a black rooster. Her duty is protecting and blessing the gravestones in cemeteries, provided they are properly marked with a cross. She calls upon us to face our mortality and encourages us to respect death and our ancestral lines. Maman will exact punishment upon all those who fail to respect and tend to the deceased.

Maman Brigitte is a healer and she is worshiped especially when someone is heavily ill and in a need for a fresh start. Her powers are not limited to healing physical illness, as she rules over spiritual death as well. She can heal ones ti bon ange if she finds it worth her effort.

Besides her healing and graveyard duties, she is associated with fertility and justice. Her followers believe that she is the ultimate judge who can be called upon to inflict retribution on those who harm them. She is also the Loa of money and expects people to fully respect transactions of money. Although such transactions should be fully respected, money and personal belongings are never to be taken too seriously. To remind us of that she sometimes steals top hat and cane from Baron Samedi for sheer enjoyment.