Editing Eshu (section)

==Appearances in popular culture==
*Eshu appears in [[K. A. Applegate]]'s fantasy series ''[[Everworld]]'', serving as the main antagonist of its eighth book, ''Brave the Betrayal''. He is a trickster god who tries many times to emotionally manipulate and mentally break the book's narrator, Jalil Sherman, but is ultimately defeated when Jalil proves too strong to give in to his mental tricks and magical illusions.
*Eshu appears in 2025's Castlevania Nocturne S2E4 as a three headed spirit with horns to guide the protagonist Annette. Annette first believes she is seeing the devil who has come to claim the souls of the damned, but when she discovers the benevolent spirit is trying to guide her to the Spirit World she sees him as Papa Legba, who is a Voodoo Loa known as the guardian of crossroads.
*The 1974 blaxploitation film ''[[Abby (film)|Abby]]'' features Eshu, but mostly as a deranged and ruthless sex deity that possesses a young woman and causes her to sexually assault and brutally murder various men in the process.
* Eshu appears as the main antagonist of the film ''[[Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals]]''.
* The 2016 crime film ''[[The Infiltrator (2016 film)|The Infiltrator]]'' features a "priest" of Eshu employed by the Medellín cartel who tests the loyalty of Robert Musella (Bryan Cranston), an undercover federal agent working in Operation C-Chase.
* Eshu features in the stage name "Eshu Tune" of rapper and comedian [[Hannibal Buress]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Ayanwuyi |first=Israel |date=August 18, 2023 |title=Esu is Not Satan: Exploring the Indigenous Yorùbá Worldview |url=https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=RRHREAAAQBAJ |access-date=25 August 2023 |website=Google}}</ref>