In old days, people who wanted to build houses would not
dare to offend the artisans for fear that these craftsmen may do hanky-panky to
the house. By hanky-panky I mean small magic tricks that may bring harm to the
new owner. Of course, when these craftsmen felt that the owner has treated them
well; they too can do some tricks to make the new household prosper. In China,
this sort of magic is collectively known as ‘Luban’ magic (鲁班术). I
have not known if this type of tricks is also being practiced outside the Chinese
community until a Thai archan (master) told me a real incident; perhaps this is
the first record of such practice made public.
A few years ago, a HK DJ from a radio station was assigned
to Bangkok as expatriate and she moved there with her husband and son. They
bought a 2,000 square feet apartment just outskirt of the cosmopolitan city.
Naturally with new property purchase; the couple wanted to make their new
apartment as beautiful and perfect as possible. So, they engaged a local
building contractor to do the renovation work. Unfortunately, this HK couple is
a very picky one so naturally they critical character has offended the local craftsmen
and resulted in many conflicts.
Finally, after some struggles and work delayed, the HK
couple’s home sweet home was ready. Before the couple could hold a house
warming party to celebrate, as soon as they moved into the new apartment;
strange things started to happen.
First it was the DJ’s 3-year-old son refused to sleep alone
in his room and always barged himself into his parent’s bed in the middle of
the night. This boy used to be quite independent as he would sleep alone in his
HK home. Later, the kid became very accident prone and he would suddenly trip
and fall for no apparent reasons. Upon enquiry, the boy’s answer would always
be that ‘someone’ pushed him from behind. Of course, his scientifically minded
parents wouldn’t believe such nonsense. Then, things gone to the worse and the
boy’s health deteriorated and he was being hospitalised. Again, the good docs
couldn’t find the root cause and attributed the boy’s sickness was due to malnutrition.
Although the DJ has moved to Bangkok, she was required to
travel between the two places. Once she returned to her apartment in Bangkok
and it was near midnight. Just as when she opened the main door and her right
foot was just stepped in; she suddenly raised her head and looked at the
ceiling. To her horror, there she saw the faces of a few kids giggling at her.
A sense of chillness raised from her spine and her feet became frozen solid.
Perhaps after a few seconds or so, she started to shriek hysterically until her
husband came out of the master room. At this point, the apparitions the DJ saw
has faded.
None of them could sleep for that night so they just sat in
the living room until day breaks. After some searches, the DJ couple came to
the master and in a trance state; the lersi spirit that possessed the master
found the problem. Apparently one of the craftsmen who had mixed some cremation
ashes with cement and this cement was used to paste onto the walls of the
apartment.
Indirectly speaking, the craftsman has given some kid
spirits (kumanthong) to the DJ couple without their notice. And when these kid
spirits are not fed and worshipped; they started to create trouble. Since the
kid was the weakest in the family, he was the target to be bullied.
As far as I know, the couple decided to return to HK and
sold their apartment for good. It would be virtually impossible to remove the
kid spirits unless the owner is willing to remove all of the contaminated
cement from the apartment; that means another huge investment for a potential
owner. So, moving away is the cheapest option…
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