Just writing the post below about snakes reminded me of another subject which some of the locals believe strongly about in Isaan. Landlord's and ghost spirits. If anyone has got their own stories from living in isaan or heard others talk of such things then feel free to post your story. I find this kind of stuff interesting. Cheers.

Jay

"I'm not sure about the type of snake you refer to and whether or not deadly but we had a snake on our land that was huge around the time we laid soil and had our house built/finished in Ubon. The locals kept saying it was a "Landlord" to the area coming to see who had disturbed him. Over the course of a week or so the snake kept coming close to the house and in-laws were saying prayers in front the house to remove the "snake spirit" from our land. I do not belive or disbelive this kind of stuff' but the snake never came again after that. Maybe it was just in lorry load of soil dropped outside or maybe it really was a landlord as thy say...I'll never know but some strange things do happen in Thailand which cannot always be explained. All the talk of snaked reminded me of that story from 4 years ago.."

Hi there Jay-UK

I did start a Khmer superstition thread sometime ago, incase your interested here's the link

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=101769