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Culture or Region: Thai, Lao and Cambodian traditions

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Ma Lai

Ma Lai is a Southeast Asian female transforming or separated-body spirit associated in regional accounts with night wandering, fear and…

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Phi Dip Chin

Phi Dip Chin is a Thai-language label associated in some regional classifications with Chinese dead imagined as not fully transformed,…

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Phi Phrai

Phi Phrai is a dangerous Thai and regional ghost category associated with wandering dead, water, violent death or spirits placed…

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Phi Tai Hong

Phi Tai Hong is the Thai ghost of a person who dies suddenly, violently or under conditions considered untimely and…

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Phi

Phi is a broad mainland Southeast Asian term for spirits and ghosts, ranging from ancestors and place guardians to dangerous…

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