Surin Villagers Making Offerings To Deformed Dead Piglet

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Surin villagers making offerings to deformed dead piglet

By Coconuts Bangkok

SURIN: -- Residents in Surin’s Amphoe Sungkha have been making offerings to a strange-looking piglet that died upon birth yesterday, believing that the arrival of the strange creature will bring luck to the owner’s family.

Run Boonnueang, a 60-year-old Surin local, was not amazed when he witnessed his three-year-old breeder giving birth to ten piglets in the morning of Jan. 17 since it was her fourth delivery. What intrigued him was the last baby that came out of its mother’s womb and died at birth.

The unusual baby pig has one eye and a trunk-like, five-centimeter-long growth [more...]

Full story: http://www.coconutsb...ed-dead-piglet/

-- COCONUTS Bangkok 2013-01-19

[DILLIGAD]

Sounds like a few expats I know from that area!

[sirchai]

Some have brought flowers and incense sticks along with them to make an offering, hoping to gain some fortune and prosperity.

Seems they'll have to wait until 2015. ASEAN will do the trick, or not.

[SICHONSTEVE]

Just goes to show how 'pig-ignorant' these people are!!! Haven't they heard of birth defects before? - I think I can answer that one actually.

Maybe the 'red pig ghosts' were responsible so they should tether a pig outside every house to repel it!!!!

[phuturatica]

Oh dear...

[rgs2001uk]

Sounds like a few expats I know from that area!

Have you ever seen some of their wives?

[sirchai]

Sounds like a few expats I know from that area!

Have you ever seen some of their wives?

Here's "Noi", married to a guy near Surin.

[TackyToo]

I am just wondering how Neandertal behavior and ASEAN as well as the often praised globalisation fit together in a Thais mind...

[Mudcrab]

Just goes to show how 'pig-ignorant' these people are!!! Haven't they heard of birth defects before? - I think I can answer that one actually.

Maybe the 'red pig ghosts' were responsible so they should tether a pig outside every house to repel it!!!!

Dear oh dear...and all these years my sister in England has had a horseshoe hanging outside her front door of her farmhouse in the hope that it will bring good luck. maybe she is pig (or horse )ignorant too.

[Mudcrab]

Is it just me (probably) but one of the pics looks like there is a pair of hands, severed at the wrists holding the pigs ears.

Could this possibly be evidence of a homesick expat Kiwi caught in the act and the rest of the story is just a cover up?

the pig looks to have a smile on his face!!

Edited January 19, 2013 by Mudcrab

[kotsak]

TiT in the 21st century..

[ThaiKiwi]

Just goes to show how 'pig-ignorant' these people are!!! Haven't they heard of birth defects before? - I think I can answer that one actually.

Maybe the 'red pig ghosts' were responsible so they should tether a pig outside every house to repel it!!!!

Almost as ridiculous as people having concerns about walking under a ladder or breaking a mirror or Friday the 13th or the chanting "Bloody Mary"

[Innitsee]

what did it taste like ?

[DILLIGAD]

what did it taste like ?

Tesco's everyday value burger, probably

[krisb]

You could of at least warned me when I clicked the link I was gonna see it.

Doesnt matter to late now.

[sirchai]

I am just wondering how Neandertal behavior and ASEAN as well as the often praised globalisation fit together in a Thais mind...

Baht will become Euros and $........