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ti bon ange en · NOUN

Etymology

From Haitian Creole, from French petit bon ange (“little good angel”).

Meanings

1. In voodoo, one of the dualistic aspects of the soul, responsible for personality, character, and willpower.
   • Here we begin to see that there is a cooperative relationship between the tibonanj and the gwobonanj. 2013, Carol P. Marsh-Lockett, Elizabeth J. West, editors, Literary Expressions of African Spirituality, page 103:
   • For them, the act of zombification is a matter of capturing the ti bon anj and thus exerting an absolute power over the individual. 1995, Laënnec Hurbon, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 192
   • Indeed it is characteristic of the almost anonymous, transcendent, spiritual nature of the ti-bon-ange that it is automatically liberated at the moment of death and hovers over the body for nine days before ascending to heaven. 1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 44:
   • Throughout this period the ti bon ange is extremely vulnerable, and it is not until it is liberated from the flesh to descend below the dark abysmal waters that it is relatively safe. 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 182:

Forms

Relateds

gros bon ange