From the
Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/18/briton-arrested-thailand-babies-corpses
"A British citizen has been arrested in Bangkok on suspicion of
smuggling human infant corpses for use in black magic rituals
after the bodies of six babies were found in a suitcase in a hotel
room, Thai police have said... Some of the
remains had been covered in gold leaf, said police, apparently for
use in black magic rituals... Black magic
rituals are still practised in Thailand, where
street-side fortune tellers offer ceremonies to reverse bad luck."
Thoughts? I have to say that the part about Thai fortune-tellers
practicing 'black magic rituals' seems a bit non-sequitur to me,
though it's hard to know much from the scanty details in the
article.
- Noah
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Noah Gardiner
Doctoral candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor