Traditional Khmer beliefs, treatments, superstitions?
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Well, I'm not a.Khmer poster but here you go.
Here's another practice that shows how much Western medical science os lagging behind traditional Khmer medical treatment. When Dengue Fever breaks out in our small village the locals quite astutely deal with it in the following way. They build a scarecrow (ting mong) and place it at the entrance to their house to scare away"the evil spirit",of Dengue Fever. This is a multipurpose scarecrow. If a replica of a firearm is placed im its straw stuffed hands it will scare away potential thieves and robbers. After a Water Festival in Phnom Penh when a bridge swayed causing many deaths the scarecrows were once again built to keep the departed souls from entering the bodies of the inhabitants in the house.
Now I ask you, has medical science ever produced such a multipurpose vaccine? I think not.
Here's another practice that shows how much Western medical science os lagging behind traditional Khmer medical treatment. When Dengue Fever breaks out in our small village the locals quite astutely deal with it in the following way. They build a scarecrow (ting mong) and place it at the entrance to their house to scare away"the evil spirit",of Dengue Fever. This is a multipurpose scarecrow. If a replica of a firearm is placed im its straw stuffed hands it will scare away potential thieves and robbers. After a Water Festival in Phnom Penh when a bridge swayed causing many deaths the scarecrows were once again built to keep the departed souls from entering the bodies of the inhabitants in the house.
Now I ask you, has medical science ever produced such a multipurpose vaccine? I think not.
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taabarang wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:54 am Well, I'm not a.Khmer poster but here you go.
Here's another practice that shows how much Western medical science os lagging behind traditional Khmer medical treatment. When Dengue Fever breaks out in our small village the locals quite astutely deal with it in the following way. They build a scarecrow (ting mong) and place it at the entrance to their house to scare away"the evil spirit",of Dengue Fever. This is a multipurpose scarecrow. If a replica of a firearm is placed im its straw stuffed hands it will scare away potential thieves and robbers. After a Water Festival in Phnom Penh when a bridge swayed causing many deaths the scarecrows were once again built to keep the departed souls from entering the bodies of the inhabitants in the house.
Now I ask you, has medical science ever produced such a multipurpose vaccine? I think not.
This super-vaccine scarecrow has also got a dick.
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Damn JB, first anatomically correct one I ever saw. Maybe the locals in my village are afraid it might attract horny widows.
I've just been informed by a local ting mong expert that the firearm was made from banana stalks and the anatomical feature came from sugar palm stems.
I've just been informed by a local ting mong expert that the firearm was made from banana stalks and the anatomical feature came from sugar palm stems.
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Brillant. I want one of those super multi-purpose ting mongs to guard my place. What do you feed them ? Rice wine and bananas ? Change the spliff from time to time ?
Do they also work over KNY ?
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theyre making statues of me now? lololol
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I don't believe in this kind of superstitions.
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i bet you believe in ghosts though.
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was told that a boy (maybe 10yo) had his name changed beacuse he always got sick
now he does not (as much)
now he does not (as much)
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was his name Phor Li ??SinnSisamouth wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2017 7:50 pm was told that a boy (maybe 10yo) had his name changed beacuse he always got sick
now he does not (as much)
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