Ed Morales and crossroads I ve removed the following 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