Lottery fever as magical log - and mystery figure - is dragged from a bog in Trang

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Lottery fever as magical log - and mystery figure - is dragged from a bog in Trang

 

Pictures: Thai Rath

 

Locals are rushing to get lottery numbers after a magical log was dragged from a quagmire in Trang.

 

They believe that the "Takhian" tree log is inhabited by a female spirit that must first be appeased but who will then give her bounteous wealth.

 

But while this case is just another where superstitions surround such logs there is more....much more.

 

Embedded into the side of the 13.70 meter log that had a circumference of 2 meters was what is believed to have been an age old Buddhist image.

 

 

It is said to have been fashioned by an ancient alchemist some 400 years ago.

 

Pictures showed the lump of old metal in the rough shape of a Buddhist image in pride of place on a golden phan (offering tray).

 

This discovery has convinced the locals - and some from further afield - that the lottery is there for the winning.

 

Yesterday the local mayor of Nataluang sub-district Natthapong Niamsom officiated over a ceremony with a senior local monk to bless the log and its mystery figure.

 

Thai Rath reported that a back hoe unearthed the trunk and was itself stuck in the bog for three days before it could be extricated.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-02

[cornishcarlos]

Bless...

That really does look like Buddha too 

I miss the simple life, back in Cornwall....

[Darcula]

9 minutes ago, webfact said:

the "Takhian" tree log is inhabited by a female spirit that must first be appeased but who will then give her bounteous wealth

 

Almost exactly the same procedure described in an email I received this morning from my new friend H.E. Sunday Babatunde Akinola.

 

[poohy]

7 minutes ago, Darcula said:

 

Almost exactly the same procedure described in an email I received this morning from my new friend H.E. Sunday Babatunde Akinola.

 

He has fallen on hard times but with our help he will unleash bountiful remuneration, I think i just "filed "the same e mail 

[worgeordie]

Let's get the log out of the swamp,make a story up about,

and they will come,and we can make a lot of money from it.

 

It's never occured to the believers,they cannot ALL win the

lottery,i suppose the ones that don't win,are not true believers.

 

Little wonder Thailand is a paradise for scammers of all kinds

 

regards worgeodie

[simoh1490]

There was a log in my bog this morning, do you think it's an omen. 

[Get Real]

And then quickly back to the implementation of modern ways and logical thinking in Thailand.

[daoyai]

38 minutes ago, simoh1490 said:

There was a log in my bog this morning, do you think it's an omen. 

did you see any numbers???

[tracker1]

3 hours ago, simoh1490 said:

There was a log in my bog this morning, do you think it's an omen. 

you will be flushed with success !

[klauskunkel]

This might be serious competition for the yesterday's holy anthill...

[tompelli]

Lottery number? 4.0

[dcpo]

4 hours ago, daoyai said:

did you see any numbers???

Only number 2.

[over2you]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Yesterday the local mayor of Nataluang sub-district Natthapong Niamsom officiated over a ceremony with a senior local monk to bless the log and its mystery figure.

This is where much of the problem lies. What hope for the less educated masses? 

[dinsdale]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Pictures showed the lump of old metal in the rough shape of a Buddhist image

 

Define overstatement. Looks more like Jubba the Hutt.

Edited May 2, 2018 by dinsdale

[rtco]

Thailand 4.0 - about 100

[thaichiro]

I believe something similar happened in Cambodia years ago where a local helped someone remove a log and purportedly then won a lottery. Folks came from miles around to rub the log for luck.

[madusa]

7 hours ago, dcpo said:

Only number 2.

I saw some liquid stuff that looks very much like sperm on this lucky piece of ancient thing

[rickudon]

I would have laughed at this too last year. My father-in-law caught a golden eel (plaa rai) in January and put it ina concrete tank, i thought it might be worth something due to rarity, but it turned out golden swamp eels are not uncommon. Next thing i know mother-in-law has incense sticks, candles burning and is praying to the eel for lottery number inspiration. She them netted it out, put it in a bowl and whatever configuration it curled into was interpreted as a number. I chuckled to myself and left.

 

Two days later she won 10,000 baht. In february my Sister-in-law won; in March and April my wife won 20,000 and 10.000 baht. I stopped laughing.

 

Unfortunately it died 3 days ago , so guess it is back to spending my money again.......

[sangtip2]

The smart ones are sitting back thinking that a "Log" 14 meters long and almost 1 meter in diameter must be worth a bunch just for hard wood .  Is it teak , rosewood ,      ???  

[Unsane]

On ‎5‎/‎2‎/‎2018 at 8:43 PM, thaichiro said:

Folks came from miles around to rub the log for luck.

Many a Thai has rubbed me for luck which is a nice sensation.  Not sure if it brought luck.