Nakhon Phanom crime buster becomes ‘ghost buster’

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Nakhon Phanom crime buster becomes ‘ghost buster’

By The Nation

 

 

A police captain in Nakhon Phanom has won praise from many Facebook users after they saw a video clip of him chanting a long and difficult to memorise Pali prayer to perform an “exorcism”.
 

The video clip of Pol Captain Phurithat Phurithattanon was posted by the Nakae police station on its Facebook page on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, it had received over 21,000 views. Phurithat is a deputy crime suppression inspector at the police station.

 

The post said the woman apparently suffered from hallucinations that she was haunted by a “pob” ghost, believed by northeasterners to be a parasite ghost that eats the internal organs of its host.

 

The policeman visited the family and talked in the Isaan or northeastern dialect and chanted the prayer to soothe her.

 

The Pali chant is called Paticcasamuppada, which was one of Buddha’s teachings to his disciples about why people suffer from sadness.

 

The policeman was heard in the clip telling the woman that the ghost was haunting her because of her refusal to let go. He said he was not afraid of the ghost.

 

He told the woman to take a deep breath and release as the ghost had become disoriented and lost, and he would chant a part of the tripitaka for her to listen to.

 

Some Facebook users said it was amazing that the policeman could remember the long Pali chant and that this indicated the officer might have been ordained as a Buddhist monk.

 

A Facebook user, Ratchanikorn Homsudjai, said the chant was not a prayer for busting a pob ghost but rather a chapter of Buddha’s teachings. She said if Buddhists try to understand it and follow it, they will become happier.

 

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 -- © Copyright The Nation 2019-03-05

 

UPDATE:

Nakhon Phanom crime-fighter becomes ‘ghostbuster’

By THE NATION

 

 

A POLICE captain in Nakhon Phanom has won praise from Facebook users after they saw a video clip of him chanting a long and difficult-to-memorise Pali prayer to perform an “exorcism”.

 

Pol Captain Phurithat Phurithattanon’s video clip was posted on Facebook by Nakae police on Monday night and by yesterday morning, it had viewed more than 21,000 times. Phurithat is a deputy crime suppression inspector at the station. 

 

The post said a woman complained she was being haunted by a “pob” ghost, a parasitic spirit that eats the internal organs of its host. The policeman visited the family, discussed the case in the Isaan dialect and then chanted the prayer to soothe her.

 

The Pali chant, called Paticcasamuppada, is one of the Buddha’s teachings on why people suffer from sadness. The policeman was heard in the clip telling the woman that the ghost was haunting her because of her refusal to “let go”. He said he was not afraid of the ghost. He told the woman to take a deep breath and “release” it as the ghost had become disoriented and lost. Meanwhile, he would chant part of the tripitaka for her to listen to. 

 

Facebook users were astonished that the policeman could remember the intricate Pali chant, speculating that he must have once been ordained as a monk. One user, Ratchanikorn Homsudjai, pointed out that the chant was not a “ghost-busting” prayer but rather a chapter of the Buddha’s teachings. 

 

She added that if Buddhists tried to understand and follow it, they would become happier.

 

There have been at least 34 news reports of “pob” ghosts over the past three years, according to the Thai Civil Rights and Investigative Journalism’s website (tcijthai.com). Twenty-five reports came from the Northeast and at least four featured assaults, resulting in the deaths of two “possessed” people.

 

According to traditional beliefs in the region, there are two main categories of pob ghost: the pob cheua possesses the relatives of its victims, often passing from mother to child, while the pob mon latches on to a person who has violated the laws of magic. 

 

Psychiatrist Dr Sangan Suwanlert explains spirit possession in rural Thailand areas as a type of culture-bounded hysteria.

 

Khon Kaen Rajanagarindra Psychiatric Hospital’s treatment guide says symptoms of so-called possessions are usually rooted in anxiety over an illness or unresolved mental issues. 

 

It recommends that community health officials investigate the cause of deaths they suspect stem from supernatural beliefs and educate residents so they don’t resort to stigmatising the mentally ill as “possessed”. 

 

Meanwhile the patients should be able to communicate and “vent” their distress and get proper counselling.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30365252

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-03-06

[bluesofa]

57 minutes ago, webfact said:

A police captain in Nakhon Phanom has won praise from many Facebook users after they saw a video clip of him chanting a long and difficult to memorise Pali prayer to perform an “exorcism”.
The video clip of Pol Captain Phurithat Phurithattanon was posted by the Nakae police station on its Facebook page on Monday night. By Tuesday morning, it had received over 21,000 views. Phurithat is a deputy crime suppression inspector at the police station.

He will no doubt scare away all the baddies from Nakhon Phanom too. Well, the gullible ones anyway.

[Justgrazing]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

chanting a long and difficult to memorise Pali prayer to perform an “exorcism”.

Yea but did he get covered in green spew trying to convince " pob " to leave it's host .. 

 

[smedly]

speechless, I honestly don't know what to say, perhaps an emoji will do 

 

????

[mick220675]

15 hours ago, webfact said:

According to traditional beliefs in the region, there are two main categories of pob ghost: the pob cheua possesses the relatives of its victims, often passing from mother to child, while the pob mon latches on to a person who has violated the laws of magic. 

A young women in our became possessed by a ghost when her mother died. The ghost made her drink bottles of whisky and fight with her farther.

 

A special Cambodian monk was brought in to perform a exorcism. The ghost was fooled in to believing it was in the wrong person after her name was changed to Big Moon. The women made a full recovery and moved to Bangkok.

 

 

[Lupatria]

19 hours ago, webfact said:

haunted by a “pob” ghost, a parasitic spirit that eats the internal organs of its host.

He probably asked the "ghost" if it wants fries with it small, medium, or large if so, you have to come out and get it at a different counter.

[hotchilli]

Maybe his talents could be better used in the place where people are sent for "attitude adjustment"

they could all return to society happier people !