Wai Kru festival brings in people to ink Sanskrit scripture lines into their bodies.  People will get tino Khong Kuen a magical trance mode during festivities to show devotion.

“Shrill shrieks pierce the humid morning air outside the famous tattoo Thai temple of Wat Bang Phra in Nakhon Chai Si, Thailand. On this clear, hot morning more than ten thousand have gathered to be a part of festival that honors Buddhist monks and others who ink the sacred lines into the bodies of the devoted. Through the morning, first one, then two and then many will transform into what appear to be an altered state and played out to the crowd of onlookers gathered in the graveled parking lot. These Thai men, all devotees to Wat Bang Phra, have entered into a trance called “Khong Khuen,” or a magical force rising, and this is the festival known as “Wai Kru.”

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