A large log dug up in Cambodia has drawn thousands of visitors who believe it has healing powers and can predict winning lottery numbers.
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People gather around a log at Prey Yeang village in Pursat province, Cambodia Photo: AFP/Getty Images
The Telegraph 26 Jul 2012
The Telegraph 26 Jul 2012
Some 4,000 to 5,000 people have already been to see the 13-metre-long log (42 feet) that was discovered earlier this month when a family excavated a pond in western Pursat province, Prey Yeang village chief Hun Nov told AFP by phone.
"They believe the log has magical powers," he said, adding that visitors were coming loaded with offerings such as pig heads and boiled whole chickens after some locals who touched the wood won money in the lottery.
"At least one hundred people a day visit the log to ask for lottery numbers and to cure their illnesses," he said. "They believe in superstition."
Cambodians are highly superstitious, particularly in the countryside where people continue to merge animist practices with Buddhism.
Hun Nov said some believers rubbed talcum powder onto the wood, hoping to see lucky lottery numbers, and others drank water from the pond and smeared nearby mud onto their bodies in a bid to cure their ailments.
While the village chief himself is not convinced of the log's powers, "We, the authorities, have no right to stop them," he said.
Source: AFP
11 comments:
Poor education and bad idea. Very sad to see such people who believe in superstitions.
You think the dirty water from the pond has magincal's power,please be awared of water is dirty my causes you more harm than good,it may caused you stomarch's worms,the parasites that lives in this dirty pond may caused stomarch's blames.
The log is death,there is no magincal's powers whatsoever about this death's log,the log was cutting by someone putting on the pond for some reason.The person that wins lottery not because of this death log,because of his lucks.This log is good for nothing but,chop it to pieces for fire's wood to cook your food.Please don't waste your money for this useless's death wood,death tree can not eats your offering with a pig's head or whatever else you're offering for it.
Young Khmer professional.
Ignorance is our invisible prison-wall,it obscure our people's eyes from seeing the horizon.
That is why we have killing field,suffering,injustice,land lost and enemy dividing us.
Sihanouk did not care about education,since the independence day, 1953. Some observers believe that Sihanouk did not want people to be educated,because he fear that the monarchy could lose it popularity.
Today,Hun Sen is using the same concept of politic as Sihanouk had done.Hun is careless about the future of the nation. He fears that education can allow our to open the door to democracy and a brave new world.
Where there is ignorance,there is no justice and freedom.
True Khmer
Education is the key to solves this kind of blinded believe system.Fact:Death log is nothing but death tree.Lord Buddha did not teach them to believe in death tree,some one wins lottery has nothing to do with this death log in the bond.If you believe that the dirty pond water can cure you illness and your drink the water from this pond, you must know that water's borne diseases can causes harmful to your health,it can cause diarhea/stomarch's arch/worms/parasites in the water can causes sick,you can die from drinking this pond water.Three guys above you are absolutely right.educations are they to solves all ignorant.
Kmenhwatt
the founder of this log, better start to find a place to hide, if turn out to be not true, I am worry for his safety. This is not a threat from me. I just hope things will not be out of control. Take care all.
Ignorance breeds superstition. This log is nothing more than a dead tree, but these villagers have no access to education, information and the environment of the outside world, so they are vulnerable to cheats and frauds. Sad really.
Oh,come on death log can not predict a winning lottery numbers.Are you out of your mind? No wonder foreigners can scam these people for believing a death tree.This death tree is good for burning to cook your rice that's it!!!!! No power no magical nothing.Wake up folks!
We live in a democracy, we every day crying for. We than, should let the people do, what they believed.
Not just Cambodian people, but most of the Khmer descents from Thailand and Mekong Delta believed very deep on that kind of spirit.
No one stop you nor anyone stop any body from believe what they believe in here.I simply say that the death log has no magical's powers whatsoever.You're wasting your time to go see death's log and dring dirty pond's water hoping that the death tree can cure your diseases.
If this tree so magical,ask yourself why someone cut it down? Also,can not predicts the winning lottery numbers.These people wasted their time for flocking there to see the death tree.I hope they don't kill each other for this useless's log.
This is one part of the dumb and stupidity believed, khmer empier lost huge land to our neighbors because of these stupidity nonsense......
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