I was with a friend walking through Central Festival mall in Phuket today when we walked past a woman who was sat down rocking back and forth, shaking her head violently. She was being attended to by another woman who was holding an apple. I thought nothing of it and kept on walking, but my friend stopped.

I asked my friend why she was staring at the woman and she told me that the woman was possessed. I was taken aback by this. I had no idea that this was a common thing, but there are people who have the ability to let spirits “enter” them, sometimes at will, sometimes not. Quite a crowd had gathered around this woman, who had apparently been invaded by an unwelcome intruder.

I wanted to take a picture but would have felt a bit intrusive snapping away while this woman had some sort of encounter with a spirit from another dimension. Five minutes later we walked past the woman again, but this time she had calmed down and the spirit had gone. My friend said that there will be plenty of people like this around during next month’s vegetarian festival.

The Phuket vegetarian festival will take place October 11 to 19 and I’m really looking forward to it. It will be the first time I’ve seen this incredible spectacle, which involves not only people possessed by spirits, but some downright gruesome mutilation such as bloody piercings and slashings while spirits protect from pain. I’ll certainly get some good pictures of the festival. If you have any days free then I think a trip to Phuket during the vegetarian festival is a must at least once in a lifetime. I’m incredibly squeamish at the best of times, but I want to see it with my own eyes.

Phuket Vegetarian Festival pictures.

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