Ghosts that reside in trees. These can be benevolent or malevolent spirits. You will often see trees in Thailand wrapped with colorful cloth. It means that a spirit inhabits that tree. There is often a certain spirit associated with a certain type of tree: Nang Mai is a female spirit inhabiting a tree; Nang Takian is located in hopea trees and Nang Tanee is found in banana trees. To protect forests against logging, some monks ordained trees and wrapped them up with a thin orange cloth. These trees then became sacred, making it impossible for Buddhists to harm the trees. Sometimes, however, officials used another monk to defrock the tree.