AYUDHAYA: Every household has its personal distinctive customs, but a household in Phak Hai District lately caught national consideration when it was found maintaining the corpse of a long-dead relative within the entrance room of the family home.
Current guardian of the coffin, 36-year-old Samreng Yingyong, advised reporters the body was that of his great-great uncle Phuangthong Lidkaho, who died almost 70 years ago.
Mr Phuangthong’s open coffin is kept in the entrance room of the hundred-year-old picket Thai house, where Mr Phuanthong once lived.
Every day after he will get home from his building job, Mr Samreng lights incense sticks in entrance of the coffin and makes choices of food and drinks. Every evening he sleeps in entrance of the coffin to maintain it company.
On many nights he hears the sound of footsteps in the house and somebody sweeping the ground, Mr Samreng stated.
This in no purpose to feel afraid, however. Mr Samreng’s granny advised him it was simply Mr Phuangthong’s spirit wandering about.
Older brother Prasit Lidkaho, seventy five, said that he was the fourth child of seven in his family. Mr Phuangthong was the youngest. His household have been practitioners of traditional drugs, with the household speciality being the meed mor (witchdoctor’s magic knife), Mr Prasit explained.
Mr Phuangthong was born without a proper hand and lacking a quantity of toes. Despite this handicap, by the age of nine he was already a grasp healer who could treat any illness, Mr Prasit mentioned.
His quick profession came to a tragic halt when he fell down the front steps of the house and landed on a large mortar.
As he lay dying, the kid referred to as his mother and father and siblings to his aspect.
In the exact spot where his physique still lies, he informed them that he didn’t wish to be cremated.
The household must maintain his physique till they had been sure he had been reborn. If they did not, the family would break up aside and are available to wreck, the dying baby mentioned.
That stated, the young Mr Phuangthong bade farewell to his relatives, assumed a meditative place and quietly passed away, Mr Prasit said.
“It’s strange,” Mr Prasit stated, “I purchased a teak coffin, but the physique didn’t rot or scent so we never had to put the lid on it. The body just dried out by itself.”
The family custom of healing is now being continued by his son, a monk in Kanchanaburi and nonetheless makes use of Mr Phuangthong’s magic knife, Mr Prasit mentioned.
New would keep watch over Mr Phunagthong’s physique for so lengthy as they lived, he added.
Neighbor Chanuan Thanuthon, seventy eight, confirmed that Mr Phuangthong was a powerful healer loved by all of the villagers.
After his dying, nobody was afraid when his spirit appeared to folks or possessed mediums. It was just the spirit’s way of letting people know he had not yet been reborn, she defined.
A relative of Mr Phaungthong, 66-year-old police captain Thongthai Bancha, stated that since word of the story was printed within the nationwide press, many guests had come to the home asking to see the physique.
Capt Thongthai said that since the guests began coming he began sleeping in the house to assist out.
Most guests ask for good luck or search proof that Mr Phunagthong’s spirit still occupies the house.
One evening Mr Phunathong’s elder sister, 76-year-old Yuphin Ahthon, abruptly began shaking and fainted at the house. She then started to talk with the voice of a young boy, giving everyone a proper previous shock, Capt Thongthai mentioned..