Phuket Vegetarian Festival street processions continue

By The Phuket News

 

Devotees and Mah Song this morning departed the Lim Hu Tai Su Shrine in Samkong to make their way to Saphan Hin. Photo: PR Phuket

 

PHUKET: The street processions began yesterday (Oct 19) with the first ‘Yew Keng’ procession held at the Choor Su Gong Shrine (Naka Shrine) in Wichit, followed by the devotees and Mah Song spirit mediums leading the procession from the Sapam Shrine, on Thepkrasattri Rd, north of Phuket Town.

 

This morning, starting at 7:09am, people lined the streets to observe as devotees and Mah Song departed the Lim Hu Tai Su Shrine in Samkong to Saphan Hin. 

 

Dressed in traditional white of purity, participants lit firecrackers to keep evil spirits away while assistants guided possessed Mah Song along the course of the procession.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-vegetarian-festival-street-processions-continue-77695.php

 

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If being a vegetarian makes you look like this lot , the wife's off on the bike to KFC and McD tonight, with enough rope and baht to tie a fully grown BBQ'd pig on her back for afters !

What's Mah Song carrying in his left hand?  A pepperoni?

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Vegetarian Festival street processions