Extreme Piercing At Phuket Vegetarian Festival
Probably the most fascinating and also somewhat gruesome festivals in the world, the Phuket Vegetarian Festival is best known for its aesthetic displays of unusual body piercings. You may see devotees with tire irons through their cheeks, or large spikes driven through their tongues. The festival is held for just over a week annually during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, falling somewhere in October. This year it runs from the 11th to the 19th of October.
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival and its rituals are thought by many to bring good fortune to religious followers. Phuket residents of Chinese ancestry, called Hokkien Chinese, follow a strict vegan or vegetarian diet for 10 days for the purposes of merit-making and spiritual cleansing. This is accompanied by sacred rituals at Chinese temples and shrines around the island. Stalls of vegan food are set up throughout Phuket City, and even non-vegans will be suitably impressed by the delicious selection.
The festival started in 1825 the participants are not allowed to eat meat or have sex at the time of the festival. For obvious reasons participants are asked to use only sterile blades, spears and guns. According to physicians there is a risk of HIV and hepatitis.
Perhaps the most visual of these rituals are the displays of extreme body piercings with large objects that can range from knives to umbrellas. Devotees, called ma song, may even partake in walking over hot coals barefoot or climbing up ladders that have rungs made of knife blades. Visitors can see the ma song walking in their trances during long parades through the streets on every day of the festival.
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That's just too weird for me. These people have to be crazy.
that is just..
juuust..
disgusting..
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WHYYYYYYYYYY??????? PORQUE????
this is shitt i can do better try a nuclear bomb through your mouth,
i think it will look better and spice up the action.
i think they have no brain.
and a normal piercing lok bether
thats totaly fuckt.
and why ??
holy freaking crap that is totally awesome! they are a little bit gross but if it's what they like then okay. people who do these must have a high pain tolerance. to all those who do this keep it up but make sure watever you stick in needs to be sterilized first. the one with the guns was kewl too. i wish i could see this in person it's so weird that i'd just have to see it.
omg.. hell no for that kind of piercing man.. good for show no for normal life……
Jsou to magoři
this is really unbelieveable
that is sick you sad people