Female Ghosts of Thailand

‘Krasue’ A woman’s head with viscera hanging down from her neck. She paralyzes like ice-cold lightning. Where will you be tonight when the moon is shut? Woman hater, where will you be when the womb of your soul is shut tight? Krasue will chant these lines over your stunned body, her incubus entraps you. She will keep you pregnant until your male belly bursts. Then she will come out of you, and the moon will open and shine again, but not for you. ~~~~~~~~ ‘Mae Nak’ She's who died at childbirth, she who extends her arms. Mae Nak loves you. She wants to carry you in her limbs to the birthing couch. There she will stretch her arms to the dawn. Mae Nak will keep you safe, but you are a ghost to her, she sees only an endless umbilical cord. She believes you dangle at the end of it. She believes that one morning she will hear you mewing like a kitten at her door. Until then she lengthens her arms like a sea anemone at a watery reflection of the morning star. ~~~~~~~~ Nang Mai ‘Lady of the Woods’, ghost-fairy related to trees. Texture and grain are her domain, but she will appear if you are near her spider woven eyes. She harms none, but she can break the ties to your own self, make you see the mask you’re wearing, then she will send you home weeping until you break a thousand mirrors.