News Forum - Chiang Mai hosts Thai style Halloween to make merit for ghosts

[Thaiger]

Thai people in the Mae Jo Town Municipality of the San Sai district in Chiang Mai province joined the northern Thai-style Halloween event and parade on Saturday to make merit for ghosts and souls from hell. People in the northern part of Thailand believe that ghosts and souls rise from hell to visit their relatives and ask for merits on every full moon day of the 12th month in the lunar calendar, which is called Sip Song Peng Day. Locals will go to temples or invite monks to their houses to take part in the merit-making ceremony to send merit […]

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