FromHaitian Creole, fromFrenchpetitbonange(“little good angel”).
ti bon ange (pluralti bon anges)
- Invoodoo, one of thedualisticaspects of thesoul, responsible forpersonality,character, andwillpower.
1953,Maya Deren,Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published2004, page44:Indeed it is characteristic of the almost anonymous, transcendent, spiritual nature of theti-bon-ange that it is automatically liberated at the moment of death and hovers over the body for nine days before ascending to heaven.
1985,Wade Davis,The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page182:Throughout this period theti 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.
- 1995, Laënnec Hurbon, in Cosentino (ed.),Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 192:
- For them, the act of zombification is a matter of capturing theti bon anj and thus exerting an absolute power over the individual.
2013, Carol P. Marsh-Lockett, Elizabeth J. West, editors,Literary Expressions of African Spirituality, page103:Here we begin to see that there is a cooperative relationship between thetibonanj and thegwobonanj.
