GHOSTS

**david44** · 05-09-2018, 06:04 PM

They seem to have a very real presence in the Thai psyche.

Despite all that evaporated milk Reincarnation stuff locals take a long way round to avoid cemetry at night.

Are their haunts down your way

**HuangLao** · 05-09-2018, 06:09 PM

Cultural dependence is forlorn.

Sleeping off a good drunken evening at the local crematorium endears one to the spirited world.

**Scottish Gary** · 05-09-2018, 06:14 PM

I wouldn't say they have a thing about ghosts. Its more an ingrained superstition caused by their misinterpretation of Buddhism.

**HuangLao** · 05-09-2018, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Scottish Gary

I wouldn't say they have a thing about ghosts. Its more an ingrained superstition caused by their misinterpretation of Buddhism.

Or a cultural/spiritual integration, as one will find everywhere.

The misinterpretation is born of Farang, usually pretending to know better but haven't a clue.

**Scottish Gary** · 05-09-2018, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by HuangLao

Or a cultural/spiritual integration, as one will find everywhere.

The misinterpretation is born of Farang, usually pretending to know better but haven't a clue.

It was actually a Bangkok Thai that told me that about his northern brethren. He said the superstition is an Issan thing because they don't understand the true meaning of Buddhism.

**Norton** · 05-09-2018, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Scottish Gary

It was actually a Bangkok Thai that told me that about his northern brethren. He said the superstition is an Issan thing because they don't understand the true meaning of Buddhism.

I know a respected monk here who says the same about Bangkok Buddhists.

**Maanaam** · 05-09-2018, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Scottish Gary

It was actually a Bangkok Thai that told me that about his northern brethren. He said the superstition is an Issan thing because they don't understand the true meaning of Buddhism.

I suggest your friend's explanation might be misinformed or lost in translation in his head. No offense.
The ghost thing in Thai culture is rooted in pre-Budhist times of animism.

Just a suggestion, and an observation, and I'll stand to be corrected.

**david44** · 05-09-2018, 06:44 PM

It does seem pervasive hear like the Green Man , Marriage and Father Christmas as ways to paddle through he swamp/

If you drive around N Thailand and I've been in nearly every province N of Pilok the city of Vishnu I notice no Thais wish to live next to the crem, in my village it is Yunnan Jin Haw or KMT who live closest and in many villages there is no one near the crematorium.

of course ghosts need no passports and I recall many such yarns esp on the Atlantic coasts where christianity had never utterly erased prior natural sun and mon beliefs found in Celtic Arc, Basque Country , Arabaian peninsula is amok with djinns and all sort of pokery jiggery too

**HuangLao** · 05-09-2018, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by Norton

I know a respected monk here who says the same about Bangkok Buddhists.

Uh-huh.
And so it goes....

**YourDaddy** · 05-09-2018, 09:09 PM

lets watch "ghost movee"

**slimboyfat** · 05-09-2018, 09:27 PM

It's not just Thais. Even many well educated Singaporeans believe all that stuff.

Having said that, I did catch myself saying sorry as I stepped over some roadside offerings - joss sticks etc today (it is hungry ghost month here when apparently the dead roam the earth). Best not upset them eh

**dpeterk** · 05-09-2018, 09:48 PM

Filipinos also believe in ghosts. Oh well.

**hallelujah** · 05-09-2018, 10:39 PM

...and Malaysians.

**Neo** · 05-09-2018, 11:21 PM

ghost stories are/were told by smugglers and bandits to keep the normal folks indoors at night... no surprise that it's part of Thai culture

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