Bawon Samdi, the Baron of Saturday, is the head of the Gede lwa and the master of death and the cemetery. The first male buried in any graveyard becomes his; he stands at the boundary between the living and the dead, and no soul may cross into death without him, so that he is petitioned both to receive the dead and, conversely, to save the gravely ill by refusing to dig their grave. He is imagined as an undertaker in top hat and black tailcoat, with dark glasses often missing a lens and cotton stuffed in his nostrils as in a corpse, and he is at once solemn and gleefully obscene, drinking clairin steeped in hot peppers and mocking the pretensions of the living with lewd songs. He is married to Manman Brijit and presides over the whole boisterous nation of the Gede, among them Gede Nibo. He is often paired or conflated with Baron Lacroix and Baron Cimetière.