" Exu eats anything in the way of food, but he drinks only one thing: straight rum. At the crossroads Exu waits sitting upon the night to take the most difficult road, the narrowest, the most winding, the bad road, it is generally held, for all Exu wants is to frolic, to make mischief.

Exu, the great mischief-maker, Vadinho's patron deity. "

― Jorge Amado , Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands