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RE: Reminiscing my visit at the National Museum in Bangkok.
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Old people believe that old palaces are usually full of spirits or ghosts of older generations of people who used to live and work in the palaces.
I did not know that. There must be a lot of ghost stories wrapped around these buildings and movies about haunted temples?
I'm just guessing. What about little stories that we tell our kids. For example, if you're not good, then the temple ghosts will come out and get you.
Do you have those kinds of scary stories, too?
Oh! We have lots of local ghost stories as well. Temple ghosts just stay inside the temples! There are already too many floating ghosts or ‘spirits who lost their way and could not cross to the other dimension’ . These could sometimes come around to ask for help, so we have to do some merits or religious ceremony to help them cross over. Otherwise, they would be stuck here for a long, long time!
At village level, different kinds of ghost stories are more seriously taken by villagers.