When missionaries and Christian priests came to publicize the religion to the tribes,they have adapted belief about ghosts and traditional rituals into new religions. For example, the Vietnamese people who live near Kontum city mostly use the native gongs for funeral procession in the Christian rituals.
In Laos, and the Northeastern part of Thailand, there is the use of ‘’Mor Lam Phi Fa’’, to cure illness and diseases. Most of the medium is female. Main musical instrument is ‘’Can’’. Medium will sing and dance with the music and will become a person that has the personality the same with the soul residing in him at that moment. The medium will ask about personal problems and social problems give advices and cure the diseases to those who want to.
For the east side of java, the Muslim mediums will communicate with the horse's soul With the hobby dance which will move like a horse galloping around. Main musical instruments include gong, drum and flute. When the horse's soul reside in the medium, the medium will then walk like a horse and become more powerful with weird and dangerous actions as they will bite and eat the drinking glass. No one can stop.
Around ‘‘Trojan’’ area in the Sulawesi Island, the Christians of the Roman Catholic Doctrine will have liturgical rites for the dead, caused by diseases, by dancing in circle and building a model, called Tau Tau at the tomb. The Catholics in the central part of Flores Island will dig the graves and take up the bodies of their ancestors and awake them as they believe that this will help them boost fruitful harvesting results