Aged hot pepper infused Caribbean rum in wax-sealed glass jar with jute netting adorned with Black rooster feathers. Hang or stand alone.
Jar 2" W x 2 1/4" H


ABOUT:

Through St. Brigid, the goddess became Maman Brigitte in Haiti, a Vodou loa. She is the only Vodou lwa, of non-African origin, descended from Brigid/St. Brigit, the Celtic "triple goddess" of smithcraft, healing, and poetry, who reigned over life, death, fertility, cemeteries, and motherhood. Brought to Haiti in the hearts of deported Scottish and Irish indentured servants. Brigid was more Scottish than English, but in Haiti perhaps at one time the word anglete represented all the British Isles.

Maman Brigitte is considered to be the wife and consort of Baron Samedi, and is often represented by a black rooster. Master of the Cemetery and chief of all the departed ancestors, known as lwa Ghede. The grave of the first woman buried in any cemetery in Haiti is consecrated to Maman Brigitte, and it is there that her ceremonial cross is erected. She, as well as Baron, is invoked to "raise the dead", meaning to cure and save those who are on the point of death from illness caused by magic. She cares for the dead making a point that they are loved more here than they were ever loved on earth, a place famous for it is cruelty.

Maman Brigitte, like the rest of the Baron/Ghede constellation, is a tough-talking lwa who uses a lot of obscenities. She drinks rum laced with hot pepper, so hot that a person not possessed by a lwa could never drink it. She also is known to pass hot Haitian peppers on the skin of her genitals, and this is the test to which women are subjected when they are suspected of "faking" possession. She dances the sexually suggestive and remarkably artistic banda, and the virtuosity of her dancing is legendary.

Maman Brigitte and Baron are the mother and father who reclaim the souls of the dead and transform them into lwa Ghede, removing them from the mystic waters where they were without cognizance of their own identity and naming them.


Offerings are typically made to the loa, which includes food and drink, and they are honored in ritual when the mambo or houngan calls them to the ceremony.

Each loa has a very specific set of demands that must be met before they will grant favors to petitioners.



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