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Only called him once and he came through in spades. I hear good things about him in general.
In my view, St. Expedite, like a lot of names, are masks used by a variety of spirits and forces for us to ritually interact with them - basically an 'egregore' - a bundle of astral flux - that gets inhabited by a spirit / daimon working within a specific cultural context.
In my view one would call Expedite if you are in New Orleans, New York, Mexico, Texas, or Los Angeles, etc, anywhere anywhere there are a bunch of Catholics, but not in, I don’t know, China or the UK.
By way of example, another folk saint is Anima Sola. Anima Sola in Los Angeles is not the same as in Haiti, where the image is bound up with a very hot Petwo spirit named Marinette.
In the Mexican Catholic context she’s the Lonely Soul in purgatory, an image of passive suffering and longing for redemption. In Mexican Brujería, Anima Sola is most famously seen as a manifestation of the Intranquil Spirit used in coercive love magic. She is lonely and suffering, she is asked to make a target feel that same loneliness and longing for you.
But in the Haitian ritual and cultural context the image of Anima Sola is the pwen, the "point" of manifestation for Marinette Bwa Cheche - Marinette of the Dry Arm - a Petwo Lwa born from the violence of the Haitian Revolution. She isn't invoked to make person pine for you, she's called for raw power, vengeance, and death.
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Oh. Just to add to what Amadeus said.
The Catholic saints don't really care that much if you are Catholic or not. Catholicism mean's "universal" and they are there to help everyone
Not that this is an issue with Folk Saints, but in general I think it's a good idea to avoid any saints who were the Doctors of the Church - or are mythically entangled with the stories of the same. Especially avoid any who were Dominicans - who were the primary intellectual engine and the administrative face of the Inquisition. That's the "harsh" end of the mythstream, imho.
Is he absolutely safe to work with? I considered it, but I had my concerns that Saint Expedite might be dangerous or have a cthonic aspect after reading the (admittedly dubious) traditions that he causes one's family member if he grants one's prayer but is not given the proper repayments
