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Healing Ceremony.

This involves a dance along with musical accompaniment in order to cure the patient. They wish to bring back the spirits to the sick, This is usually carried out after the harccest, and only on Tuesday. The method involves people meeting in a circle. Offerings are placed in the middle including sweets, steamed glutinous rice, phasins (skirt), Shawls, mirrors, combs, powder, incense sticks, candle, hens eggs, whisky and 24 Baht. The spirit medium invites the soul of the ancestors, and when the spirit enters the medium he will dance as the music plays. The ancestral spirit leaves the body of the medium indicates by the shaking body and the raising of the arms in a throwing gesture over the shoulders

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Uploaded on December 6, 2015
Taken on November 22, 2015