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Baron Samedi, the Glossary

Baron Samedi (Baron Saturday), also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi or Bawon Sanmdi, is one of the lwa of Haitian Vodou.^[1]

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Abrams Books

Abrams, formerly Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (HNA), is an American publisher of art and illustrated books, children's books, and stationery.

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Akuji the Heartless

Akuji the Heartless is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive exclusively for the PlayStation.

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American Gods (TV series)

American Gods is an American fantasy drama television series based on Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel of the same name and developed by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green for the premium cable network Starz.

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American Gods season 2

The second season of American Gods, based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name, was broadcast on Starz between March 10 and April 28, 2019, and consisted of eight episodes.

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American Horror Story

American Horror Story (AHS) is an American horror anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX.

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Baron Cimetière

Baron Cimetière is one of the Gede, a spirit of the dead, along with Baron Samedi and Baron La Croix in Vodou. Baron Samedi and Baron Cimetière are death gods and Haitian Vodou gods.

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Baron Criminel (also spelled Baron Kriminel) is a powerful spirit or loa in the Haitian Vodou religion. Baron Samedi and Baron Criminel are Haitian Vodou gods and supernatural beings identified with Christian saints.

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Baron La Croix

Baron La Croix (Bawon Lakwa) is one of the Gede, a lwa of the dead and sexuality,Torres, Rafael Agustí. Baron Samedi and Baron La Croix are death gods, Haitian Vodou gods, Love and lust deities and Love and lust gods.

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Black magic

Black magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes.

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Buffer overflow

In programming and information security, a buffer overflow or buffer overrun is an anomaly whereby a program writes data to a buffer beyond the buffer's allocated memory, overwriting adjacent memory locations.

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Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos.

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (TV series)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is an American supernatural horror television series developed by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa for Netflix, based on the Archie comic book series of the same name.

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Cinderella

"Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.

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Count Zero

Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986.

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Cult of personality

A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader,Mudde, Cas and Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2017) Populism: A Very Short Introduction.

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Curse

A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.

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Découvertes Gallimard

Découvertes Gallimard (in United Kingdom: New Horizons, in United States: Abrams Discoveries) is an editorial collection of illustrated monographic books published by the Éditions Gallimard in pocket format.

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Demetrius Grosse

Demetrius Grosse (born February 26, 1981) is an American actor.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy"Humorous Fantasy" in David Pringle, ed., The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (pp.31-33).

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Don Pedro Colley

Don Pedro Colley (August 30, 1938 – October 11, 2017) was an American actor.

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Duvalier dynasty

The Duvalier dynasty (Dynastie des Duvalier, Dinasti Duvalier) was an autocratic hereditary dictatorship in Haiti that lasted almost 29 years, from 1957 until 1986, spanning the rule of the father-and-son duo Dr. François Duvalier (Papa Doc) and Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc).

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Folk Catholicism

Folk Catholicism can be broadly described as various ethnic expressions and practices of Catholicism intermingled with aspects of folk religion.

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François Duvalier

François Duvalier (14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as Papa Doc, was a Haitian politician who served as the president of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.

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Gede (Haitian Vodou)

The Gede (Guede) are the family of lwa, spirits or deities associated with Ancestor worship in Haitian Vodou, that represent the powers of death and fertility. Baron Samedi and Gede (Haitian Vodou) are Haitian Vodou gods.

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Geoffrey Holder

Geoffrey Lamont Holder (August 1, 1930 – October 5, 2014) was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, director, choreographer, and artist.

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GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)

GoldenEye 007 is a 1997 first-person shooter video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64.

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Grimm (TV series)

Grimm is an American fantasy police procedural drama television series created by Stephen Carpenter, Jim Kouf and David Greenwalt, and produced by Universal Television for NBC.

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Guede Nibo

Gede Nibo (Gede Nibo) is a lwa who is leader of the spirits of the dead in Haitian Vodou. Baron Samedi and Guede Nibo are death gods, Haitian Vodou gods and supernatural beings identified with Christian saints.

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Haitian Vodou

Haitian Vodou is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries.

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Henry Corbin

Henry Corbin (14 April 1903 – 7 October 1978) was a French philosopher, theologian, and Iranologist, professor of Islamic studies at the École pratique des hautes études.

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Heroes (American TV series)

Heroes is an American superhero drama television series created by Tim Kring that aired on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006, to February 8, 2010.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is an action-adventure video game based on the James Bond films.

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James Bond 007: Nightfire

James Bond 007: Nightfire (sometimes stylised NightFire) is a 2002 first-person shooter video game published by Electronic Arts for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows, with additional versions released for the Game Boy Advance in 2003, and Mac OS X in 2004.

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Jelly's Last Jam

Jelly's Last Jam is a musical with a book by George C. Wolfe, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and music by Jelly Roll Morton and Luther Henderson.

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Laënnec Hurbon

Laënnec Hurbon (sometimes anglicised as Laennec Hurbon; born 1940) is a Haitian sociologist and writer specialising in the relationships between religion, culture and politics in the Caribbean region.

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Lance Reddick

Lance Solomon Reddick (June 7, 1962 – March 17, 2023) was an American actor and musician.

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List of Disney villain characters

This is a list of Disney Villain characters, often based on fictional antagonist characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up.

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List of Heroes characters

This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Heroes, the ''Heroes'' graphic novels, and the Heroes webisodes.

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List of Marvel Comics characters: B

Bagheera is a black panther, based upon The Jungle Book character of the same name.

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Live and Let Die (film)

Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy thriller, the eighth film in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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Louisiana Voodoo

Louisiana Voodoo (Vaudou louisianais, Vudú de Luisiana, Voudou Lalwizyàn), also known as New Orleans Voodoo, is an African diasporic religion that originated in Louisiana.

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Lucifer

The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.

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Lwa

italic, also called loa, are spirits in the African diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou and Dominican Vúdu.

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MacGyver

Angus "Mac" MacGyver is the title character and the protagonist in the TV series MacGyver.

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Maman Brigitte

Maman Brigitte (English: Mother Brigitte) sometimes also written as Manman Brigitte and also known by Gran Brigitte, Grann Brigitte, Manman, Manman Brigit, and Maman Brijit is a death loa (or lwa) and the consort of Baron Samedi in Haitian Vodou.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book publisher and the property of The Walt Disney Company since December 31, 2009, and a subsidiary of Disney Publishing Worldwide since March 2023.

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Multiplayer online battle arena

Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) is a subgenre of strategy video games in which two teams of players compete against each other on a predefined battlefield.

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Mustafa Shakir

Mustafa Shakir (born August 21, 1976) is an American actor known for his portrayal as Bushmaster in Marvel's Luke Cage, Big Mike in ''The Deuce'' and Jet Black in ''Cowboy Bebop'' (2021).

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Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.

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Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Papa Legba

Papa Legba is a lwa, or loa, in West African Vodun and its diasporic derivatives (Dominican Republic Vudú, Haitian Vodou, Louisiana Voodoo, and Winti), who serves as the intermediary between God and humanity. Baron Samedi and Papa Legba are Haitian Vodou gods and supernatural beings identified with Christian saints.

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Paul McGann

Paul John McGann (born 14 November 1959) is an English actor.

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Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare

Plants vs.

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Présence Africaine

Présence Africaine is a pan-African quarterly cultural, political, and literary magazine, published in Paris, France, and founded by Alioune Diop in 1947.

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Pretty Things

Pretty Things were an English rock band formed in September 1963 in Sidcup, Kent, taking their name from Bo Diddley's 1955 song "Pretty Thing", and active in their first incarnation until 1971.

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Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, a design flaw, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

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Psychopomp

Psychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psychopompós, literally meaning the 'guide of souls') are creatures, spirits, angels, demons, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.

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Resurrection

Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death.

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Rum

Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice.

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S. F. Sorrow

S. F. Sorrow is the fourth album by the English rock band Pretty Things. Released in 1968, it is known as one of the first rock operas ever released.

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Saints Row 2

Saints Row 2 is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ.

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Shadow Fight 2

Shadow Fight 2 is a role-playing fighting game published and developed by and.

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Shadowrun Returns

Shadowrun Returns is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Harebrained Schemes.

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Sheet Music (10cc album)

Sheet Music is the second album by the English rock band 10cc.

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Smite (video game)

Smite is a 2014 free-to-play, third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Hi-Rez Studios for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Amazon Luna.

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Sudo

sudo is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that enables users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser.

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Sugar Hill (1974 film)

Sugar Hill is a 1974 American horror blaxploitation zombie film, directed by Paul Maslansky and starring Marki Bey as the title character who uses voodoo to get revenge on the people responsible for her boyfriend's death.

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Supernatural (American TV series)

Supernatural is an American television series created by Eric Kripke.

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Supernatural season 5

The fifth season of Supernatural, an American dark fantasy television series created by Eric Kripke, premiered September 10, 2009, and concluded on May 13, 2010, on The CW.

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The Godfather (wrestler)

Charles Wright (born May 16, 1961), better known under his ring name The Godfather, is an American retired professional wrestler.

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The Journal of African American History

The Journal of African American History, formerly The Journal of Negro History (1916–2001), is a quarterly academic journal covering African-American life and history.

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The Princess and the Frog

The Princess and the Frog is a 2009 American animated musical romantic fantasy comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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The Sing-Off season 4

The fourth season of The Sing-Off premiered on December 9, 2013.

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The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a virtual reality first-person shooter survival horror game for Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, and Oculus Rift, developed by Skydance Interactive in partnership with Skybound Entertainment.

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