Thai Superstition

[mazimus]

I am moving to Thailand (Khon Kaen) later in the year.I know the Thais are a very superstitious race i would be happy if anyone would let me know of any unusual customs or superstitions that they have come across.I have put my foot in it a couple of times in fact i frequently put my foot in it due to my ignorance of local custom and superstition.

[mahtin]

I am moving to Thailand (Khon Kaen) later in the year.I know the Thais are a very superstitious race i would be happy if anyone would let me know of any unusual customs or superstitions that they have come across.I have put my foot in it a couple of times in fact i frequently put my foot in it due to my ignorance of local custom and superstition.

Ghosts are alive(?) and well and living(?) in Khon Kaen.

Definitely.

[kebabman7]

If you are moving to Khon Kaen have a look at this thread on local Issan superstitions which ran in the Issan forum a while back:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Issan-Supers...l=superstitions

[Chaimai]

I am moving to Thailand (Khon Kaen) later in the year.I know the Thais are a very superstitious race i would be happy if anyone would let me know of any unusual customs or superstitions that they have come across.I have put my foot in it a couple of times in fact i frequently put my foot in it due to my ignorance of local custom and superstition.

As a farang that is your right, if not your duty !

[yabaaaa]

I am moving to Thailand (Khon Kaen) later in the year.I know the Thais are a very superstitious race i would be happy if anyone would let me know of any unusual customs or superstitions that they have come across.I have put my foot in it a couple of times in fact i frequently put my foot in it due to my ignorance of local custom and superstition.

Ghosts are alive(?) and well and living(?) in Khon Kaen.

Definitely.

But not all Thais think like this.

Try the one where they stick a scarecrow outside their houses saying " no one born here on a Wednesday or Friday" <deleted>???

Something to do with spirits taking some un natural inteerest in people born on thise days?? they have soft hearts easy to steal ???? go figure still no worse than GOD !!

[eggomaniac]

I have put my foot in it a couple of times in fact i frequently put my foot in it due to my ignorance of local custom and superstition.

details please?

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Whoever suggests an outing pays for all. Therefore the popular saying in Thailand is, "Up to you!"

My wife was very 'uneasy' visiting Erawan Falls, 'lots of ghosts'. A shirt we put over balcony rail had hand prints on it in the morning. She is 'convinced' it was a ghost. I could not explain the lack of footprints on the gorund below. Then her friend phones and says she had dreamed about people coming from the dead. She told the front desk and they wanted to see the hand prints, but I had already rinsed the shirt off and hung it to dry. I wish I would have taken a photo. It was a strange experience, as an 'intruder' would have left tracks in wet ground.

We would go back there though. Lovely resort, with a pool, run by the government.

Great accomodation, great pricing. No charge for 'ghosts'.

Oh, after the tsunami, people said the Thais would avoid those places. That turned out to be NOT true. How would anybody be able to travel on a roadway, if they cannot go where a death has occured?

[Moonrakers]

One night I was in Isaan and we where going to a 'nightclub' in town. I had been there for about 3 weeks and sitting in a hammock sucking on beer chang was getting a tad tiresome and so I was looking forward to the trip.

Whilst the lads where getting ready for the lift into town, the girls where cleaning up the dishes from the meal we had earlier.

All was going well until CRACK................

That was the sound of a plate being broken by accident, the locals rushed to the scene whilst I calmly continued to try to make myself look good for the night out.

So I made myself ready, stepped outside and asked "So are we already then, is the lift here yet?". Only to be told the news that we where not going now because the smashed crockery was a terrible omen"....... <deleted>!!!!!!

I argued, I protested and I even tried to reason but NO!!!!!!. We where NOT going anywhere because the case of the dropped plate indicated that we would all die in horrific circumstances should we so much as sit on a motorbike.

The next day it was explained to me that the broken plate was PROOF of a bad omen, because we didn't go out and nothing bad happened. I tried to argue the obvious.............. but alas no, the plate saved our lived and I was a foolish Farang for not seeing it.

Just a heads up like.

[bruceboy]

I just accept the fact that ghosts are in Thailand.