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Baron Cimetière

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Baron Cimetière is one of the Gede, a spirit of the dead, along with Baron Samedi and Baron La Croix in Vodou. He is said to be the guardian of the cemetery, protecting its graves.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Torres">Torres, Rafael Agustí. "Loas y Vèvès del Vudú", p. 14 (in Spanish)</ref>

He wears a tuxedo with tails and a top hat. He has expensive taste, smoking cigars and drinking wine and fine liquor. He is just as crass as the other Gede, but shows polite manners and an upper-class air while doing so.<ref name="Torres" />

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Brave Gede is the doorman between the world of the living and the afterlife, guardian of the cemetery gate. He keeps the dead in and the living out.<ref name="Torres" />

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