Thai's Spirit....

One thing that you need to know about Thai culture is that Thais take spirits very seriously. And in this nation haunted places and ghost stories, nothing more is known as the legend of Mae Nak Phra Khanong. It's lost a bone-chilling tale of love and eternal love (or would be the undead devotion?) That every Thai knows well. The story has been recreated on stage, for TV, and in movies dozens of times, so that it is the Thai equivalent of Dracula or Frankenstein. It was not until recently, however, that I found out this ghost story based on real events, and you can easily visit the scene of haunting during a trip to Bangkok.The setting of this ghostly tale is the Phra Konong district of Bangkok in the mid-19th century. At that time, Bangkok was not yet in the urban jungle, it is today. It was much more a real jungle-or rather a swamp with a large number of canals and rivers joining forces with the main waterway, the Chao Phraya River. The main form of transport in those days was by boat, and the lifestyle of the people was closely linked to the rivers and canals. Phra Khanong is such a small river that flows through the south-eastern outskirts of the capital, even though at that time the area was so rural that it essentially part of the landscape.A young married couple lived in a house on the shore of Phra Khanong. Their names were Mak and his wife Nak. Siam was at the time of the exercise of authority over a large part of Southeast Asia. And Mak is recruited to serve during their campaigns in the border areas in the military. With much sadness, he sets out his own country to serve, while behind his pregnant wife. In the battle, Mak is badly wounded and he has to spend several months Thonburi, just across the river from Bangkok to recover.


                                         In his absence Nak goes to work, but something goes wrong. The delivery is fraught with difficulties, and the mother and her baby could die during childbirth. According to Thai beliefs, a pregnant woman who dies together with her child powerful and terrifying kind of ghosts creates possible. Faced with such a bad omen, the villagers did not wear a proper cremation of the corpse by Buddhist tradition, and instead hastily buried the body in a shallow grave.Mae Nak disembodied consciousness is full of devotion to her husband, and she finds herself not to move in a position to their next birth. The power of this system is so strong that her mind manifesting in a position on a physical body and her husband spell, so that the house seems to be kept and not abandoned and overgrown, as it actually is. After several months passed, Mak is well enough to return home, where he waited for his wife and newborn child found on him. While he was gone, he has never received word of her early death of someone, and he is unaware of the true situation.Slowly Mak begins to realize that something is wrong when his old friends and acquaintances in the village to avoid him. Some dare to tell him the truth of what happened, but he did not accept the fact that he live with a ghost bride. But then the real horror begins. In the middle of the night, the Spirit of Nak attacks and kills all that her husband the truth, so she is afraid of losing him if he know of their true state were to warn tries.There are several versions of what happened next, but one of the most telling, as Mak is finally convinced of the truth. Traditional Thai houses built on raised posts about two feet off the ground as protection against floods. One evening, Nak is busy, a chili paste and a lime falls through a space in the floorboards accidentally. Not seeing anyone around, she reaches down through the gap in the floor and stretches out her ghostly arm full two meters to get the lime on the ground. Mak just happened to be outside, next to the house, and as this causes him to come to their senses.


                                      
Another popular detail of the story is that he leans forward as he looks at and between his legs. When he does this, the true state he sees his abandoned house-full of dust and cobwebs and overgrown with jungle vines.Later that evening, he makes an excuse to go outside (probably to pee), and then runs off to the village temple Wat Mahabut. When he gets to the temple, the monks create a protective circle with a white thread in the middle of the ordination hall, and they sing begin to hold the mind in check. Nak is furious and chases him in the temple, saying some accounts, she was able to enter the ordination hall and seemed to stand on his head on the ceiling, but was finally held in check.What happened next depends on various versions of the story. Some say her ghost was captured by an exorcist and sealed in a ceramic vessel. The vessel was then thrown into the river, where he remained for several years. But then, one day, some fishermen pulled up and opened the glass accidentally releasing Nak the spirit again haunt the people of Phra Khanong.Nak troubled mind will eventually by the highly revered monk Somdej Toh, who digs up her body and removed dampened an oval piece of bone from his forehead. He convinced them within the bone with the promise that they will have to be combined with Mak in a future life. It is said that Somdej Toh secured This bone as an amulet in his waistcloth and kept it with him at all times. The current location of the bone amulet is a mystery, although it is generally believed that she slipped over the Prince of Chumphon, Abhakara Kiartivongse into the hands of the royal family at one point.


                                     
The story of Mae Nak was last on the big screen in 2013, retold as a comedy version called Pee Mak (พี่ มาก .. พระโขนง), which is the story from the perspective of spirits man Nak and his buddy who fought at his side told in the army. With a cast of popular young stars was Pee Mak the highest grossing film of all time Thai.One of the most well-made traditional narratives of history was reached in the 1999 film Nang Nak. If you have the time, you can watch the entire movie with English subtitles. It makes a great introduction to the story of Mae Nak and gives you an insight into the typical way of life along the waterways of the 19th century Siam.