Manman Brigit, Voodoo Loa of Cemetaries and Money

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Seeking Justice or Revenge? Look no Further than Manman Brigit!

In Vodou, Manman Brigit (Grann Brigitte, Manman, Manman Brigit, Manman Brijit) is the mother of cemeteries, the loa of money and death, and the wife of Baron Samedi. She may be related to the "triple" Celtic goddess of poetry, smith craft, and healing, Brigid/St. Brigit, as her name is Irish in origin. She is usually depicted as a white woman. The first woman's grave in a cemetery in Haiti is dedicated to her. Her colors are black, purple and white, her number is nine, and her particular days of service include Monday and Saturday. Her sacrificial animal is a black chicken. She drinks rum laced with hot peppers - "gaz lakrimojen Ayisyen" (Haitian tear gas), and like her husband and the rest of the Guede Spirits, she is a "potty mouth" and uses profanity. Ma'man Brigit will protect gravestones if they are marked properly with a cross. Ma'man Brigit is known to rub her private parts with hot peppers, and those who appear to be faking possession by her in a Vodou ceremony may be subjected to this test, which they obviously would not pass if their possession is not genuine.


A very powerful Lwa, Manman Brigit rules the Ghede and transitions of life and death, major life changes, cemeteries, money and children. Ma'man Brigit is invoked to cure those who are near death as a result of magick. She is known to be very wise, and swift to respond to petitions for help!

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Manman Brigit

Is invoked to "raise the dead"; that is, to rescue those who are at death's door as a result of black magic.

Ma'man Brigit's Favorite Things

Oprah ain't got nothing on this sister!

As with all deities, Ma'man Brigit has her favorites. Here is a list of some of the things she loves:

Favorite colors: black, purple and white
Favorite number: nine
Favorite days of the week: Monday and Saturday
Favorite sacrificial animal: black chicken
Favorite drink: rum laced with 21 hot peppers

Offerings to Ma'man Brigit include black coffee, roasted peanuts, rum, roasted corn, spicy food, rice and black beans, coconut meat, sweet potatoes, smoked mackeral, and bread.

Ma'man Brigit 

Song for Ma'man Brigit

Manman BrigitHere is a song about Ma'man Brigitte sung in Vodou ceremonies:

Haitian Creole -

Mesye la kwa avanse pou l we yo!
Maman Brigitte malad, li kouche sou do,
Pawol anpil pa leve le mo (les morts, Fr.)
Mare tet ou, mare vant ou, mare ren ou,
Yo prale we ki jan yap met a jenou.

English-

Gentlemen of the cross (deceased ancestors) advance for her to see them!
Maman Brigitte is sick, she lies down on her back,
A lot of talk won't raise the dead,
Tie up your head, tie up your belly, tie up your kidneys,
They will see how they will get down on their knees.
(Meaning, tie up your belly, 'gird up your loins' to prepare for the strain of work, we will make the people who did this evil spell get down on their
knees to beg pardon and receive their punishment.)

Trust me, she's one bad loa!

Find more information about Manman Brigit from Mambo Racine's Vodou lesson 2: The Ancestors.

Voodoo Revenge

When getting even is the only solution...

The Voodoo Doll SpellbookThe following is a ritual found in the Voodoo Doll Spellbook about exacting revenge.

Hex Your Enemy Ritual


Perform this ritual when you want bad luck and chaos to follow your enemy. Make a Voodoo doll out of black fabric. With a red paint pen, write the name of your enemy on the doll. Lightly stuff the doll with sulfur, graveyard dirt, and Spanish moss. Thread a needle with red thread and stick it in the head of the doll. Go in and out of the image all the way down to the feet and pull the thread tightly but carefully so it doesn't break. This will cause the doll to gather and become disfigured and small. Place the doll in a small box and take it to a cemetery. Dig a small hole and place the box into the hole. Place some Devil's Shoestring on top of the box and sprinkle with Black Arts oil. Then cover the box with the graveyard dirt. As you are covering the box, state what misfortune you would have befall your enemy. When the box is completely covered, say "Let it be so". Leave the cemetery and never return to where the box was buried.

Ma'man Brigit's Veve 

Baron Samedi

The Suave and Debonair Spirit of Death and Hubby of Ma'man Brigit

Baron SamediBaron Samedi is the ultimate suave and sophisticated spirit of Death - quite cultured and debonair. He has an existential philosophy about death, finding death's reason for being both humorous and absurd. Baron Samedi is the extreme expression of individuality, and offers to you the reminder of delighting in life's pleasures. Live happy and live well, for even the most rich and talented, or the most poor and resourceful people are not spared the ultimate universal experience - Death.

To purchase a Baron Samedi Voodoo doll, visit http://www.planetvoodoo.com/baron-samedi.htm
Manman Brigit and Baron Samedi

Ma'man Brigit with her Husband Baron Samedi 

The Celtic Connection - the Goddess Brigid

Check out this lens on the Celtic version of Ma'man Brigit by Brunnhilda Q...who happens to know her intimately. Maybe she'll tell the world about it someday...
http://www.squidoo.com/goddessbrigid.

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Black Voodoo Moss DollVoodoo Mama's revenge is a spell used to seek retribution against someone who has done you a great wrong. Write the name of your oppressor onto a black Voodoo doll while burning a black candle. Anoint both doll and candle upside down with Revenge Oil. Say Psalm 55 over the doll 9 times while the candle burns. When it has burned all the way down, throw the wax remains and the doll against the gate of a cemetery. When you leave, go a different way from whence you came.

Psalm 55: A Prayer for the Destruction of the Deceitful (KJV)
To the chief Musician on Neg'inoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David


1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my
supplication.

2 Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a
noise;

3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the
wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

4 My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen
upon me.

5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath
overwhelmed me.

6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away,
and be at rest.

7 Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and
strife in the city.

10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and
sorrow are in the midst of it.
11
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her
streets.

12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it:
neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I
would have hid myself from him:

13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in
company.

15 Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for
wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

16 As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.

17 Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he
shall hear my voice.

18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me:
for there were many with me.

19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah.
Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

20 He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he
hath broken his covenant.

21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his
heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall
never suffer the righteous to be moved.

23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction:
bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust
in thee.

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