I'm hoping to eventually write a story that incorporates the Lwa and Vodou culture as faithfully as possible, and with that in mind, I'm curious about some details surrounding Maman Brigitte.

I do understand that she's a psychopomp, much like her husband(?) Baron Samedi, and that she's a fun character herself. The quote I see most often circulated is something like, 'She's so chatty and full of jokes that she'll have you laughing all the way to the underworld'.

But that's about all I can find out about her with the sources I've found. I've also heard rumors that she has some distant connection to the goddess Brigid of Irish yore, but the depth of that connection is apparently a subject of debate.

Please, enlighten me. I'm dipping my toes into Vodou and hope to explore it more comprehensively in the future, but for now, it's one step at a time.