I am going to bangkok for a week
I leave you with this!!
We have been talking about ghosts and spirits in Thailand. Belief in them is far from limited to Mirror readers and indeed a bit like Zimbabwe or wherever their influence is quite deep
Bpi, Phee and Phii, Phee or whatever are synonymous
Some definitions for starters
phee ghost, spirit; pertaining to sorcery
win yaan soul, spirit
variations of a theme ...
Jao phaaw a god or spirit
Spirit of man/father..phu yai
Jao mae spirit of/woman mother
Jao pha/jao khao looks after hills
duaang win yaan soul, spirit
bpi saat a spirit, a ghost, a devil
Bpi graseu sai awk ie entrails hanging out..girl
Bpi grahang… boy chawp jap jim,,ie e likes to eat ..well this is a family webblog,…can fly..
phi kradsong..has wings ie baskets under its arms
Eats girl saliva
theh phaa rak guardian spirit
phee thee spirit of an object or place
phee baan spirit of a house
and the ubiquitous spirit houses ...
saan jao shrine, not a spirit house
saan phra phuu mi spirit house
Jaao Pha/jaao khao looks after hills
Jaao Paaw Ruk Muang..Spirit looks after Amphur and Jangwat
Bpi Baan also Bpi Reuan..another word for house (Mae says if she dies that is what she will be)
Bpi Ga…m/F
Body changer
Eats sick people….all to do with entrails!
Bpi Pob
Disguised a a person..eats animals/people alive
Bpi Takian
Lives in trees-girl...if you cut tree down you have a problem
Mae Ya Nang..looks after boats and cars
Bpi Ta Nee
Lives in bananas and wears green clothes..girl
Bpi Dai Hawng
What I become if I die in an accident
Bpi Dai Tong Kom
Turn into this if you die when pregnant
Bpi Prai
Lives in river or even sea…kills swimmers
Bpi Pa/
Bpi Khao
Wild spirit of woods and hills
Bpi Fa
Spirit of old queens… I mean real ones not katoeys..
And their families.looks after villages and hills
Bpi Dip
Back from the dead..ie zombies kills everyone
Bpi Hua Kat
If someone cuts off your head…
Bpi Paa Chaa
Graveyard Souls..You need 7 of them to make a little buffalo…which then looks after house..need Paw Mot to do this!…If I am a pain she will go to the mor doo and get him to make the buffalo make my stomach hurt and then I will die!
Also
Bpi Kwai
Bpi Kwai Tanoo
Bpi Sing
Lives in body makes you mad…same as Bpi Khao
Bpi Kanoon (ie stands under Jack Fruit Tree…hello!)
Prostitute (not a Bpi at all is real!! And found in Lumpini and Sukhumvit!)
Also Bpi Garooa..husband of garee..more abuse..! Real person
Bpi Mae Mai
Dies Not have husband so comes back to f**** man!
Luk Yom, Luk Gok, if pregnant 3 months girl born…keep the baby foetus and dry it,,helps father mother ..
Winyaan Dek.. Gooman…good spirits of children
Paaw Gae..Ghost of old Likay Teacher
Bpi Praet
A very tall Bpi, with everything big-except mouth cos cannot eat and lies to everyone, like a coconut tree-one to whom Sai Baat has not been offered
Big hands, lies to and , hits mother and father.
Like the ones we saw at Awk Phansa
1.Yom Ma Tud/ 2.Yom Pa Baan also Yom Malat..knows when you will die
1 helps 2
1 gets your soul when you die comes with
Sam Wan Ga Suwan comes to see 2 what been up to good or bad
If you have been good Yoo Bon Faa ie send you to live on the star.
.Teeawada..Nang Fa is girl, If you bad…send you Kan Nai Din ie to hell ..just like Brueghel has a dish boiling water..
They? Who? have the book to write what you have done wrong..The Book is made out of Dog Skin..Banchee Nang Maa
If you have been adulterous..you have to climb a tree with big thorns..ouch!..under the tree has a man stuffs spikes up your arse.and when you come to the top has the bird eats your head.
So that deals with farangs in LOS na?
ps
Bpi Takorn appears to live in the sticky rice basket..but now we are into Issan ghosts and spirits ..I think they are all quite regional. local…Can someone come up with some more Issan/ Khon Phu Khao ones??.
