That woman hurried to set a fire to cook rice for her husband, but told her husband not to enter the bedroom, asking him to sleep outside. The husband suspected his wife's strange behavior, since he saw her eyes became big, came out in a reddish way and moved up and down and the unpleasant smell of corpses came from the bedroom. He was curious to see something in the bedroom because his wife banned him from entry. Thinking of everything, he always sat noting at his wife's behaviors. Few minutes later, he saw her sticking her tongue out to pick up the ladle dropping down to the ground. Seeing this, he realized that she must be ghost pretending to be a human and therefore he remembered what the people had told him on the way home.
The man crept into the bedroom and suddenly saw the decaying flesh of the corpses of his wife and children. He went out and sought the way to escape from the ghost. "Please cook the rice quickly,' he said to her, 'I am very hungry; I go to urinate for a moment." Then, he poked a small hole in a clay pot in order to pour the water onto the palm tree leaves. It sounded as if the man was urinating. Then he ran as fast as he could towards a pagoda where lived a monk, who was good at magically repressing the evils.
The ghost, hearing her husband urinating too long, then walked to see him. As soon as she saw her husband passing through, she chased him very fast, almost reaching him. when the husband turned back and saw his wife chasing him quickly, he thought that he could not escape from the ghost, so he climbed up a Bay Mat tree (Blumea balsamifera) - a kind of tree believed to be effective in protecting people from ghost haunting - nearby him. The ghost dare not go near Bay Mat tree. She walked round it and called out her husband to come down. The man thought that the ghost might be afraid of Bay Mat tree, so she did not come near. He pruned a branch of the Bay Mat tree, carried it on his shoulder and walked towards a pagoda.
Due to the effect of Bay Mat branch, the ghost was afraid to go near the husband, but she still walked after him. When the man arrived at the pagoda, he went to stay in the middle of the crowd of the monks who were reciting and preaching the eight virtues in the temple and told the monks what had happened to him. At that moment, the master of Buddhist monks who was good at using incantations let the man stay in his building and actively cast a spell around it to prevent the ghost from entering.
The ghost would never went anywhere far from that building. Even though she could not follow her husband into the building because of the incantations, she walked back and forth, exploring any way to reach her husband. Near the master 's building was a large banana tree (Chek Chvea) with its branch bowing into its window.
Very powerful though was his spell, it could not be stronger than the large banana tree. The spell could have its power only where the branch could not reach the building, but the place touched by the branch was the only way for the ghost to enter the building.
The ghost climbed up the large banana tree and went trough its branch into the building and cruelly broke her husband 's neck to death right at that moment.
Because there was such narrative, the ancient Cambodian people generally believed it and banned their descendents from growing the large banana trees adjacent to the end pieces of house roofs because it could bring bad luck to them. As for the Bay Mat trees, they have become a good medicine to prevent the evils or ghosts up to now.
- The END -
That woman hurried to set a fire to cook rice for her husband, but told her husband not to enter the bedroom, asking him to sleep outside. The husband suspected his wife's strange behavior, since he saw her eyes became big, came out in a reddish way and moved up and down and the unpleasant smell of corpses came from the bedroom. He was curious to see something in the bedroom because his wife banned him from entry. Thinking of everything, he always sat noting at his wife's behaviors. Few minutes later, he saw her sticking her tongue out to pick up the ladle dropping down to the ground. Seeing this, he realized that she must be ghost pretending to be a human and therefore he remembered what the people had told him on the way home.
The man crept into the bedroom and suddenly saw the decaying flesh of the corpses of his wife and children. He went out and sought the way to escape from the ghost. "Please cook the rice quickly,' he said to her, 'I am very hungry; I go to urinate for a moment." Then, he poked a small hole in a clay pot in order to pour the water onto the palm tree leaves. It sounded as if the man was urinating. Then he ran as fast as he could towards a pagoda where lived a monk, who was good at magically repressing the evils.
The ghost, hearing her husband urinating too long, then walked to see him. As soon as she saw her husband passing through, she chased him very fast, almost reaching him. when the husband turned back and saw his wife chasing him quickly, he thought that he could not escape from the ghost, so he climbed up a Bay Mat tree (Blumea balsamifera) - a kind of tree believed to be effective in protecting people from ghost haunting - nearby him. The ghost dare not go near Bay Mat tree. She walked round it and called out her husband to come down. The man thought that the ghost might be afraid of Bay Mat tree, so she did not come near. He pruned a branch of the Bay Mat tree, carried it on his shoulder and walked towards a pagoda.
Due to the effect of Bay Mat branch, the ghost was afraid to go near the husband, but she still walked after him. When the man arrived at the pagoda, he went to stay in the middle of the crowd of the monks who were reciting and preaching the eight virtues in the temple and told the monks what had happened to him. At that moment, the master of Buddhist monks who was good at using incantations let the man stay in his building and actively cast a spell around it to prevent the ghost from entering.
The ghost would never went anywhere far from that building. Even though she could not follow her husband into the building because of the incantations, she walked back and forth, exploring any way to reach her husband. Near the master 's building was a large banana tree (Chek Chvea) with its branch bowing into its window.
Very powerful though was his spell, it could not be stronger than the large banana tree. The spell could have its power only where the branch could not reach the building, but the place touched by the branch was the only way for the ghost to enter the building.
The ghost climbed up the large banana tree and went trough its branch into the building and cruelly broke her husband 's neck to death right at that moment.
Because there was such narrative, the ancient Cambodian people generally believed it and banned their descendents from growing the large banana trees adjacent to the end pieces of house roofs because it could bring bad luck to them. As for the Bay Mat trees, they have become a good medicine to prevent the evils or ghosts up to now.
- The END -
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