Sticks but no stones make for a popular fortune teller
On what really is a slow news day our journalists went to Sattahip to interview a 60-year-old Thai man who has built up a local following in recent years as a masseur and fortune teller. Dressed in a tiger print skirt, the remains of an orange shirt full of holes, wearing a braided wooden hat to cover his matted hair, and adorned with a necklace of sticks, he sits cross-legged on a covered bamboo bench attending to customers. He told the enthralled journalists he uses solid wooden sticks he finds in mangrove swamps and forests as the healing tools to massage his customers. He believes the sticks are full of healing properties and while massaging customers with them he chants a few incantations that presumably are meant to banish evil spirits and maybe send out signals for the next set of lottery numbers. Although our interview took place in Sattahip the man has set up a stall in Naklua in recent times after another traveling itinerant suggested he could make more money in the Pattaya area because of the larger potential client base and gullible tourists.
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what a con man dirty old tramp if you belive that then you really are a thick c##t thats a fact people ……
re an old man of 60,as a phsychic and Traditional spiritual healer ,rather than a Magicien,he should be respected by all of us,but he should be faith,and shouldnt charge alot of money for predictions infront of his customers,He is a skilled worker and the Mayor of Pattya should register these kind of people,
thank u sir
yrs,riki
No one is saying he shouldn’t live.
Let the old man live…atleast he does not need bailout when the predictions go wroung
Aha, also known as Alice Nutter and why not rip off the tourists, its an age old custom in Thailand, everyone else does.