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For: EFE Updated 10 May 2022, 9: 57 am EDT
The Shaman and leader of a sect that lived with corpses and gave his followers their bodily fluids, including urine and feces, to “treat” diseases has caused controversy in Thailand after being detained.
However, he was not arrested for these scatological practices, but, according to judicial sources told EFE, for having his home in a forest area and violating the rules of the covid pandemic-19.
The shaman, identified as Thawee Nanla, was arrested last Sunday and released the following day, after paying bail of 50 thousand baht ($1,446 dollars) in Chaiyaphum, a province in the northeast.
The sect was reported to the police by Jeeraphan Petchkhao, another Shaman with numerous followers on the networks known as “Mor Pla” and who is dedicated to denouncing bad practices of fraudulent seers and monks who do not follow the Buddhist precepts.
The daughter of a follower of Thawee went to Jeeraphan because she was worried about her mother’s strange new ideas and the unhygienic conditions in the sect.
According to videos shared by Jeeraphan, the police found a dozen followers in the Shaman’s house, who apparently drank the bodily fluids of this from a hole, and also eleven coffins with corpses.
One of the followers of the sect explained that the dead were disciples who had previously donated their bodies before dying so that the Shaman helps them climb to heaven .
Bare-chested and with white hair and beards like a hermit, Thawee, of about 60 years old, appears in a video gesturing in a shack full of junk surrounded by his disciples, who believe he is a god and has a higher status than Buddha.
The vast majority of Thais are Buddhists, but many also believe in other gods, mainly of Hindu origin, and in spirits. The neighbors of the sect have asked the authorities to evict them from the place. EFE
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