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Oktober 20th, 2012 | Tags: belief, bizarre, culture, festival, Fortean Times, holiday destination, mutilation, pain, Phuket, Phuket town, Phuket Vegetarian Festival, piercing, procession, self inflicted pain, Thai culture, Thailand, Tom Vater, tourism, tradition, UK | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment
April 25th, 2010 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Balaji mandir, belief, demon, demonic, Exorcism, Exorcism in India, faith, Hinduism, India, India's Exorcist Temple, possessed, possession, Rajasthan, spectacle, supernatural, superstition, Your Mother Cooks Socks in Hell | Category: India | Leave a comment
Februar 27th, 2010 | Tags: belief, Beyond the Pancake Trench, Buddhism, Buddhism in Thailand, Buddhist monk, magic, monk, Nakhon Chaisi, possession, religion, tattoo festival, tattoos, Thailand, Thailand tattoo, Tom Vater, tradition, Trance, Wai Khru Day, Wat Bang Phra | Category: Thailand | Comments (3)
Dezember 29th, 2003 | Tags: animal rights, animal sacrifice, belief, blood sacrifice, Dakhsin Kali, Hinduism, Kali, Kathmandu, Nepal, offering, ritual, temple, Tom Vater, tradition | Category: Nepal | Comments (3)