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 Ed Morales and crossroads 

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In addition, author Ed Morales has claimed that Yoruba religious beliefs and traditions played a part in early American blues music, citing blues guitarist Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues as a ""thinly veiled reference to Eleggua, the orisha in charge of the crossroads.""

It doesn't tell us why we should care about Mr. Morales opinion, and is a rather dubious claim at best.  Legends of the Devil and the crossroads occur in European folklore as well (and probably occur in folklore of all cultures).    "