BLACK AND WHITE MAGIC IN THAILAND
As Bangkok streets overflow with the ferocity of revolutionary citizens coming out in the thousands to depose Thailand’s first lady prime minister YINGLUCK SHINAWATRA, it appears that the desperation is mounting. Ferocity is escalating and in this environment of desperation when stakes keep getting higher, a third force has been unleashed in the fight for Thailand’s future – this is the force of black and white magic!
by Lillian Too
to believe in the power of otherworldly forces, and in the current political face-off between the red shirts and the yellow shirts, the T aksin faction versus the Establishment/Royal faction - the Government of Yingluck Shinawatra versus the rebel leader - the casting of spells is getting increasingly serious. T e use of blood potions, fi erce rituals
U 28 FENGSHUIWORLD | MARCH 2014
sing MAGIC is something the Thais take pretty much for granted. In Thailand, it is not something extraordinary
and chanting of secret incantations is slowly escalating. Both sides use black and white magic. News coming out of the country via popular gossip travelling down the narrow strip of land that connects Malaysia with T ailand will have us believe that in the end who wins and who loses the battle being fought out on the streets of Bangkok to see who takes control of the fair land of T ailand will be about whose cosmic power is stronger; whose use of black (and white) MAGIC will prevail.
Very quickly for those who have not been following the dramatic power play going on in T ailand, Yingluck Shinawatra is the sister of the powerful T aksin, and current fl ag bearer of the powerful Shinawatra family. She swept to power on a wave of popular support. It is the villagers from outside Bangkok who voted her into power. In other words, she came to power legitimately – through the ballot box. Her enemies comprise a loose alliance of the Establishment upper classes of T ailand including
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