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Thailand and superstition
A curious word "superstition" in itself. It also implies a belief. Just as the word concubine (mia noi) implies that there would also be a wife (husband). However, in Thai practice, superstition seems to play the leading role in all kinds of situations. Just think of all the frills that are for sale to prevent or avoid evil.
This goes a long way. A rescue service with ambulance in Chonburi noticed that seriously ill people or those injured in a traffic accident were afraid to be transported in the ambulance, almost to the point of panic. Many believed that bad karma prevailed in the ambulance or that the spirits of the deceased road victims were also still present in space.
Nirun Saengsinchai, the team leader of the rescue service, came up with the bright idea to decorate the inside of the ambulance with Doraemon. A Japanese comedian figure, a sort of Mickey Mouse. He paid the entire cost of the decoration out of his own pocket.
Many involuntary passengers, despite their physical problems, were later very happy and felt much less fear of being transported in this ambulance.
How about the following superstition….when people are admitted to a hospital and they end up in a bed as a result, they (often not everyone is of course superstitious) put some money under the bed…with that they 'buy' from the previous person who may have died in it finished their bed for that night…..on my question whether they would take that amount of money back the next day, the answer was No! And turns out to be a 'nice' extra income for the people who change the beds…..I have this information from my well-developed wife (I mean spiritually) and her family who act in such a way in arising cases.
Who also recognizes this??
My Thai wife came up with this story when I told them about the resistance to being transported by ambulance
Piet
Beats. We farrang have no idea of their spirit world.
I can still somewhat understand that the slurring on the ceiling of the car by the monk, the amulets and the figurines provide protection. My parents also had a Saint Christopher in the car.
How a childish decoration of an ambulance manages the dangers of the spirit world remains a mystery to me.
Doraemon, the face of Thai death in a few years…
Well it is a strange thing that (super) belief….there are people, yes you can't imagine, who mutter to a fictional figure they have called god…..No, even stronger who think that this fantasy figure is the whole earth with all the trimmings has recreated…..Well
If things don't go well with the money as so often, you can always change his name. Sometimes it brings luck! You have those who have already worn out a lot of names but still have no success. So there may be another reason!
That's how I know one. Families of the deceased do not want their deceased to be cremated in the new oven built at the temple. They don't want to be the first to go into the oven because then the ghost could linger and not end up well. So everyone still goes on the coals the old fashioned way and not in the super modern new oven. Everyone can believe what they want, but don't ask me to join in all that superstition and invocation of the spirits of the bereaved. Don't ask me to believe in what someone else believes.
And Thai will never live in a house in which someone has taken their own life. Fear of the ghosts keeps religion in the saddle.
It even seems that the dividing line between Thai Buddhism and animism is rather diffuse. Think of consulting the lunar calendar for weddings or mystically determining the date for the installation of the first, apparently oh-so-important pillar for your home. Not being allowed to sleep in your (too) expensively built house before the monks, etc. If Buddhism is regarded more as a philosophy than a religion, the Thais apparently see it differently. Christianity at the time also integrated pagan customs to make the new a bit easier to digest.
Likewise, a wise ruler tolerates the religious rimram of a conquered people.
The "disenchantment" of the world, as happened with us, has skipped Thailand. Lighting?
Well, we are not strange about it ourselves ... just think of, for example
Friday the thirteenth
Do not walk under a ladder
Spilling salt is bad luck
Crossing black cat
This way you will certainly be able to add to this list
I'm a little doubtful that such a drawing is a bright idea, but I do think that you should be able to assume that every ambulance will be blessed again after a death row.