Good Luck, he who believes is saved
The year can't go wrong anymore, because everyone received the very best wishes at the start of the new year.
Thailand; you will just live there, is full of good luck. Thousands of amulets guarantee love, success and happiness in 'the land of smile'. After all, without such a jewel around your neck you are helpless at the mercy of the Gods. Luck will pass you by, unless you may have written down the number of a flashing car on which the number 7 appears several times. Perhaps you can add a nice amount to your bank account as the winner of the lottery. If you play along in Bangkok's China Town, the 7 is worth nothing at all, because other luck laws apply there and the number 8 is the ultimate lucky number.
Lucky symbols
In addition to lucky numbers, you can also enforce luck with the help of objects, symbols, plants, animals or even with a lucky tattoo on your body. You see the Sak Yant lucky tattoo more and more in Thailand, especially on the bare shoulders of more or less graceful ladies. Tattooed in an unreadable language of no fewer than five lines for the Westerner .
Mythology, religion and tradition play a major role not only there, but throughout the world. Who doesn't know the famous four-leaf clover or the horseshoe as a symbol of good luck in their own country.
And what about a white elephant or a Japanese kitten that welcomes you with a waving left paw. A greeting with the right paw means: good luck to your valued customer.
Accident
In addition to the lucky symbols, watch out for 'Bad Luck'. How about Friday the XNUMXth. And if you also encounter a black hangover, you can pack the suitcase. Walk under a ladder on a sidewalk; not seen me.
Birdies
Where people are there is the market and certainly where tourists come. Captured birds, which are pitifully locked up in small cages, can be redeemed against payment of the necessary baht.
Good luck is the magic and sales word. Yet this remains a trade that cannot exactly be called animal-friendly. Although I can appreciate traditions, after a visit to a 'catch birdwatcher' I let this kind of happiness pass me by (see photo).
In a few days I will fly with EVA to Bangkok and will certainly not light a candle on the good outcome. Trust the crew who wears a good luck amulet and a Chinese jade pig under the interlock. Sure; thanks to this superstition we land safe and sound at Suvarnabhumi Airport and are going to enjoy a blissful vacation. Whoever believes will be blessed, but I still like to wander around on this globe for a while.
certainly do not underestimate the power of some adjans (magic power teachers) who place these sak-yants.
sak-yants put in tatoo shop, are tatoos only. nothing more or less.
some annulets, depending on who hands them to you, can sometimes cause weird things.
I often call me 'disbelieving Thomas', but facts are facts.
will.
Excuse me Mr Boy. But Friday the 13th, a black hangover on Friday, walking under a ladder is superstition of the European and not of the Asian. Maybe you mixed things up?
Kind regards
ML
It's unbelievable .
A few weeks ago, such a bird came flying at me (photo known to the editors).
The animal was immediately my friend, sat directly on my shoulder and hand, comes to eat with us 3 times a day, and by dark it comes to sleep.
Oversleeping is no longer an option for me, when the night gives way to daylight again he cheerfully chirps us awake for his breakfast and then flies off into the woods.
At noon he comes for lunch and takes a bath to fly out again later until dinner.
It is striking that although I have only experienced voodoo I cannot believe in anything.
Business has skyrocketed since Tweettie joined us .
You would almost think whether there is anything besides superstition.
Of course, it can also be our quality that someone else in Thailand cannot match with our Dutch product.