Jun 24, 2011

Thai Ghosts Depicted in Advertisment


Types of Thai Ghosts in this ad:

Phi Braed - (Giant / Hungry Ghost) It is believed that if a person hurts and swears their father and mother, when he dies, he will become Pret. Also, if a person kills an animal without any guilt, he will become Pret. Pret has the same height as coconut tree. They are thin. They have small mouths like a needle because they used to swear at their parents and have big hands like palm leaves because they used to hurt their parents by those hands. It is believed that Pret will appear because they want to ask us to do an offer for them. Pret is always hungry because of its small mouth, making it hard for Pret to eat. They can only get small amount of food at a time.

Phi Kra-Hung - (The flying ghost) is believed to be in a form of male ghost. Its habits are like Phi Kra Sue's habits. Phi Kra-Hung can fly by using threshing baskets as its wings and sits on a pestle at the same time. To become Phi Kra-Hung is quite easy. It is believed that if you do any mistakes or break any dark arts' rules. For example, a man does not keep a promise to his teacher (in this case, it refers to a dark arts teacher). If the teacher says that walking under a clothesline is prohibited and the man does it, then he will turn to be Phi Kra-Hung.

Phi Kra-Sue - (Spirit of an old women) a kind of Thai ghosts that possesses in women, especially old women. She likes to eat raw meat. It is believed that Phi Kra-Sue only comes out at nighttime to find food. But she doesn't come in a common way. Phi Kra-Sue will have only her head and her entrails with green light flying out into the woods and leave her body at home.

The smell of newly born child persuades Phi Kra-Sue to come. She will possess a woman who just gave birth and eats her entrails and also her child's. It is said that Phi Kra-Sue is afraid of barb because it could cut her entrails, thus people put it up to prevent Phi Kra-Sue coming to their houses.

Besides raw meat, Phi Kra-Sue also likes to eat nastiness such as feces. When she is done eating, she will use clothes of people hung on clotheslines as napkin to wipe off dirt on her face. And if people boil that cloth, Phi Kra-Sue will have a burning pain at her mouth.

When Phi Kra-Sue knows that she will die (too old to live), she will descend the spirit of Phi Kra-Sue to one of relatives who is female. By that, Phi Kra-Sue will trick a woman to drink water that has her saliva in it. The only way to get rid of Phi Kra-Sue is to kill her. There is no ceremony to eliminate the spirit of Phi Kra-Sue out of her body.

Phi Tani - a female ghost who is haunted in Tani banana trees, especially Tani banana trees that die after it has blossomed. Phi Tani is beautiful with long hair and has good smell. She wears green cloth covering her breast and loincloth. She likes to deceive or seduce men for sex. She will get jealous when a man she thinks belongs to her is together as a couple with another woman. And she will kill the man immediately.

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