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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk

Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand

by Justin Thomas McDaniel

A study of Thai religious practice built around the ghost Mae Nak and the nineteenth-century monk Somdet To. McDaniel shows how ghosts, amulets, shrines and Buddhist ritual coexist in an eclectic 'repertoire' rather than a fixed system.

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