ladysstoneheart:MYTHOLOGY MEME: CREATURES OF THE NIGHT | PHII KRASUEThe Phii Krasue, is
ladysstoneheart:MYTHOLOGY MEME: CREATURES OF THE NIGHT | PHII KRASUEThe Phii Krasue, is a nocturnal female spirit of Southeast Asian folklore. It manifests itself as a woman, usually young and beautiful, with her internal organs hanging down from the neck, trailing below the head. The Phii Krasue is a deadly, nocturnal, parasitic spirit who makes her homewithin living people, typically old solitary women, usually spinsters or widows.During the day, the Phii Krasue rests within her host. At night when the womansleeps, the Phii Krasue slips through her mouth to go hunting. She flies around insearch of favorite foods: blood, human excrement, placentas, and the intestines ofpregnant women and unborn children. She will also consume raw fish and meat. In Thailand, there is a legend locating Krasue’s origin, it tells of a certain Khmer princess becoming the Krasue in centuries past after having been executed by burning. The marriage to a powerful Siamese nobleman had been arranged for this Khmer lady following the defeat of her people in war. She was very distressed, however, for she was in love with one of the conquering soldiers, a younger man of a lower status. Eventually she was caught with her lover and the offended Siamese aristocrat sentenced her to death by burning. Shortly before the execution the princess got a Khmer sorceress to cast a magic spell over her to allow her body to be unharmed by the flames. The spell was powerful, but its effect arrived too late, when most of the body of the princess had been burnt except for her head and some of her viscera. Thenceforward the non-charred remains were cursed to continue living as the Krasue ghost. -- source link