Kalasin villagers wage battle with supernatural after three ‘mysterious’ deaths

By The Nation

 

 

Residents of two villages in Kalasin held rituals yesterday in a bid to ward off an evil spirit believed responsible for the sudden deaths of three local men.
 

Folks in Ban Non Buppha (Moo 9) and Ban Dong Nue (Moo 2) in Kuchinarai district are convinced the spirit of a deceased widow killed the men and would kill more if not stopped. 

 

“My husband was perfectly healthy when he suddenly stopped breathing,” Supaporn Saensuri said of her 60-year-old husband, Songdej Saensuri. He died on January 2.

 

She joined her neighbours as they prepared rice, dried food, shells, betel nut and sand for merit-making rituals. 

 

They strung white thread around Ban Dong Nue, hung red shirts in front of their houses and placed wooden phalluses painted red – palad khik – at all entrances to the village to keep the spirit away, said resident Pijid Kongwayha, 64. 

 

 

He said the ritual was planned after Songdej and two others died. Neighbours insisted that none of the men suffered from chronic illness.

 

Songdej was found dead with no sign of injury other than a wound on one palm suffered while toiling in the fields. 

 

In recent weeks, many women in the villages began having dreams about a female spirit coming to take away their husbands, Supaporn said. 

 

Some also said they saw a mysterious glowing object in the dead of the night, others that they dreamed about a black-skinned man. 

 

Healthcare officials, rarely impressed by supernatural claims, said Songdej’s hand injury became infected with fatal results, while the other men died from heart disease and haemorrhagic stroke, respectively.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30362169

 

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It's like travelling back in time five hundred years every time you read rubbish like this.

Apart from having electricity, motorbikes and smartphones of course - that all seems to avoid the backward time leap.

 

People are more likely to turn to supernatural explanations and superstitious rituals when :-

 

They did not have the benefit of a good education.

They do not believe the word of official authorities.

They are powerless and denied access to other paths and resources to relieve suffering.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

held rituals yesterday in a bid to ward off an evil spirit

It's about time they banned that evil spirit 'Lao Khow' up here in Issan.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

villagers wage battle with supernatural

there is reality and there is thailand

2 hours ago, webfact said:

others that they dreamed about a black-skinned man. 

 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

phalluses

Hahahaha .. What a load of old borrucks ..

And they sure they weren't dreaming about a commonly held belief about black guys in the downstairs trouser department .. 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Some also said they saw a mysterious glowing object in the dead of the night

If it buzzed also it's a Rampant Rabbit .. 

And every sunday loads of places in the so called developed world are filled with the ones who believe that the holy spirit is upon them...., send by a mysterious man living in heaven, to whom they pray and sing a couple of songs to.  He is the one who gives and takes and protects them from evil and is their savior so they say.

 

Same sheit but different and just as retarded. 

so a turgid, throbbing red knob is meant to keep spirits away?

No wonder I have never seen a ghost.

we bought current house, in falang suburbia Melbourne Aust, two years ago.

 

 

soon after purchasing, and getting to know the neighbours; one thing came up, about previous Indian owners and a death...

 

... so for almost two years, there is this poor old fraying single circle length of the white cotton thread, threaded the entire house. 

 

Wife usually also throws anything away, no mater how new, if it is even 0.01% broken!

 

So, I have been stealthly doing running Sydney Harbour Bridge span repair jobs on discreet lengths, when it looks like yet again the string is/was about to give up the ghost 

 

 

wWife really hates dead Indians. But, I wonder if the anti Lao Khow string really works against non-Isarn ghosts?     But then, it was put up by a Lao Ajarn, so...

 

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by tifino

16 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

2 hours ago, webfact said:

others that they dreamed about a black-skinned man. 

 

Just glad you put a hyphen in there, otherwise I'd be thinking about peeled prawns.

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

the spirit of a deceased widow killed the men and would kill more if not stopped. 

The last thing you'd want in a sleepy village out in the back ( ward ) waters of the sticks with a healthy consumption of Lao Khao and betel nut is a psychopathic spirit bent on running up a cricket score .. They need to exorcise a bit more .. 

     

about 20-25 years ago we were in an Issan village and all the front gates had scarcrow type figures on them.  We asked why and it was the same thing 3-4 village men had mysteriously died and the scarecrows were to scare the evil spirits away from their home.

 

4 hours ago, webfact said:

placed wooden phalluses painted red at all entrances to the village

now, what's that spirit widow supposed to do with them dildos?

There is no hocus-pocus here! Where is 4.0 when you need it?

Lai tay - the sudden death in sleep

 

The sudden death in sleep overtakes, without any warning, young, Asian men. In Thailand, about 5,000 young men succumbed to the "lai tay" between 1981 and 1997. Nobody counted the dead in the Philippines. The scientists puzzle over the sudden dying in the bedroom.

Som .... Triamchaisri, a scientist at the Mahidol University Medical School in Thailand, suspects a gene as the culprit - the one responsible for controlling the sleep phases. She knows the sudden death in sleep occurs especially among Thais, Philippines and Laotians.

For more info search Google: sudden death in sleep Asian

5 hours ago, webfact said:

“My husband was perfectly healthy when he suddenly stopped breathing,” Supaporn Saensuri said of her 60-year-old husband, Songdej Saensuri.

Course 35 years of smoking and downing Thai whiskey might have helped in that regard.

Next week headlines , supernatural wins ????

6 hours ago, webfact said:

others that they dreamed about a black-skinned man. 

I hear that's becoming quite prevalent now ^^

Let them have their ways... what else is there to do without a Terminal 21?

Was the phallus circumcised?

On ‎1‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 12:22 AM, Briggsy said:

People are more likely to turn to supernatural explanations and superstitious rituals when :-

 

They did not have the benefit of a good education.

They do not believe the word of official authorities.

They are powerless and denied access to other paths and resources to relieve suffering.

What a nonsense.