Cedella

Cedella is a fictional voodoo practitioner and ghost, and a minor character featured in comic books published by DC Comics. She is associated with the Constantine line of titles and first appeared as a skull in Hellblazer #1 in January, 1988.

Biography
Cedella, surname unknown (possibly Midnite, though unlikely), was a young Jamaican woman and a powerful practitioner of voodoo. She was the brother of Linton "Papa" Midnite, who was a strong manipulator of the dark arts in his own right. Papa Midnite murdered Cedella's physical form in order to harness her power. He performed a ritual upon the corpse for ten days, that prevented her soul from passing on into the afterlife. Midnite's ritual placed a stain upon her soul, which would automatically condemn her to Hell. Once her body expired, Midnite kept her skull and used it for purposes of black magic and necromancy.

As a resident of Hell, Cedella's spirit was forced to do her brother's bidding. This involved dalliance with demons, cultivating demonic secrets, which Midnite could then obtain for his own purposes. Papa Midnite continued this practice, gaining more powerful through Cedella over the course of three decades.

English mage John Constantine went witch-walking and encountered Cedella's spirit. He helped her to break the connection with Papa Midnite, after which, she took her revenge upon him by forcing to leap off the top of the Empire State Building. Papa Midnite survived however due to being immortal.

Abilities

 * Occultism: Cedella was learned in the ways of black magic and was an adept mystic.
 * Voodoo: Cedella's mystical expertise was in the voodoo religion and culture, and she was knowledgeable of all its practices.
 * Necromancy: As both a human and a displaced spirit, Cedella had the ability to commune with souls in both the world of the living and the afterlife.

Notes & Trivia



 * Cedella's skull and a version of Papa Midnite's relationship with it first appeared in Hellblazer #1 in January, 1988, though the character herself did not appear until Hellblazer #72 in December, 1993.