Partly inspired by a scene from a Thai movie,originally posted at RDNA for the Nov 2014 challenge. Here's the original accompanying text, some of which …
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Partly inspired by a scene from a Thai movie,originally posted at RDNA for the Nov 2014 challenge. Here's the original accompanying text, some of which is true:
In many parts of Asia the seventh lunar month (around August/September) is a time of ghosts and spirits, and increased offerings of food, money, gifts, and prayers are made to placate them. Midway through this 'ghost month' is the Hungry Ghost Festival.
The strange, eerie whistling occasionally heard at this season in the jungles, coconut plantations, and fruit orchards is not the wind, but the laboured breathing and famished moaning of a particular type of hungry ghost. Extremely tall and thin, almost skeletal, these creatures are cursed with tiny mouths, utterly incapable of ingesting enough food to satiate their ceaseless hunger.
There is a particular type of sweet made from eggs and sugar that's especially popular during this festival. Teased out into a thin string and rolled into loose bundles, it is one of the few foods that is small enough to fit into the mouths of these ghosts. In certain parts this sweet is left along with the other offerings on specially constructed tables, high in the air... « Less
