Editing Clermeil

{{Short description|Haitian Vodou god}}

In [[Haiti]]an [[Haitian Vodou|Vodou]], '''Clermeil''' is a ''[[lwa]]'' who makes [[river]]s flood their banks. He is usually depicted as a white male. Clermeil is believed to be the father of all light-colored children.<ref name="Simpson">{{cite journal |last1=Simpson |first1=George Eaton |title=Loup Garou and Loa Tales from Northern Haiti |journal=Journal of American Folklore |date=Oct–Dec 1942 |volume=55 |issue=218 |pages=219–227 |doi=10.2307/535864 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/535864 |access-date=February 21, 2024}}</ref> He is sometimes considered among the most powerful of ''lwa''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Simpson |first1=George Eaton |title=4.4 Ideas about Ultimate Reality and Meaning in Haitian Vodun |journal=Ultimate Reality and Meaning |date=1980 |volume=3 |issue=3 |page=189 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/uram.3.3.187 |access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref>

According to legend, Clermeil was a cruel French colonial. When his slaves tried to kill him he prayed to the devil, and promised his soul if the devil would save him.<ref name=Simpson /> One story tells of how he abducted a woman and carried her away to his home underwater.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Courlander |first1=Harold |title=Gods of the Haitian Mountains |journal=Journal of Negro History |date=July 1944 |volume=29 |issue=3 |page=339 |access-date=24 August 2024 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.2307/2714821}}</ref>



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[[Category:Sea and river gods]]
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