Nark Puggsee - "Nark" is the Thai pronunciation for naga, the snake or serpent-like creature previously described. "Nark Puggsee" could be translated as "snake-bird". One version of the story about the origin of this animal is that it was a creature so powerful that it could transform itself into whatever form it preferred. While in the form of a monk one time, it misbehaved, and was consequently turned partly into a naga, a form it could no longer change. By associating this story with the meaning of "not-monk", there resulted the practice of referring to young men as "nark" on the eve of their ordination into the monkhood.