Maman Brigitte (Queen of the Cemetery)
Maman Brigitte is the powerful female lwa of death, cemeteries, and the underworld in Haitian Vodou. She is the wife of Baron Samedi, the master of the dead, and together they rule the Gede family of spirits. She is depicted as a pale-skinned woman with long red or black hair, dressed in black and purple mourning clothes, often wearing a black veil and carrying a broom or shovel. She is fiercely protective of graves and ancestors, and those who defile a cemetery risk her terrible wrath. Despite her macabre domain, she is also a maternal figure who offers comfort to the grieving and protects th