Bessie Jones and Georgia Sea Island Singers - O Death

In voudun there are gods and demigods of death and of the cemetery who come to the dancing ground and possess some of their worshipers; now vehicles through which the deities can communicate with mortals, the possessed advise, gossip, eat, dance, and socialize with the congregants. Thus Bessie Jones’s dramatic dialogue between Death and the reluctant sinner might just as well have its roots in an African tradition as in the popular religious poems and dramas of medieval Europe in which death was so frequent