Myanmar has its won special breed of spirits or nat, as well as these more
common ancestral and ephemeral types. With their roots in Hindu as well
as prehistoric animistic cultures, Myanmar's multitudinous unofficial
'outside' nats can be found at every gate-post, village entrance and temple,
standing guard in their nat shrine (nat houses) over a dazzling array of
territories. Nat-Pwe illuminates the still active cult of the thirty-seven nats
in the forgotten land of Burma. Difficult to define, nats are the beings between a spirit and a god. They are powerful beings, hard to placate and easily upset, that can be bestowed both good fortune and bad luck on their followers. The cult has numerous devotees, shrines and annual festivals of particular nats.