Skip, et al, I am trying to learn to focus on tasks that should be done NOW, but saw this picture; and it reminded me of one of our “Travel Stories”: My husband and I, with two children were gradually making our way by flights to Karachi, W. Pakistan. We had around the world tickets and passports. We were allowed as many stops as we applied for, if we did not back track on that ticket. ( yes, a totally different world in 1962!). My husband was a Fulbright Lecturer, under the covering of the U.S. Educational Foundation, and I was to teach in the English Speaking elementary school. Our children would accompany me daily.
Since we had always been connected with S. Baptist denomination that had many missionaries abroad, and several natives had come to the small college where my husband was on the faculty. There were some in Bangkok, and one of the long-term missionaries gave us a couple of days tour of the City. One of the places, we visited amidst a lot of beautiful cathedrals, was an adorable cottage built in their architecture design. It then belong to the S.Baptist, they were able to buy it because the king then ( the country may have been “Siam” at that time–I have demitasse brass spoons engraved with the Crown and some say Siam, and some Thailand.
*** The reason the church was able to buy it, was because it had been one of the King’s combines’ home. She had been murdered in it, and no one wanted the building because it was thought of as being possessed by demons.
Someday, perhaps, I will contact some of the current missionaries and see if they still own it. L.B.
Skip, et al, I am trying to learn to focus on tasks that should be done NOW, but saw this picture; and it reminded me of one of our “Travel Stories”: My husband and I, with two children were gradually making our way by flights to Karachi, W. Pakistan. We had around the world tickets and passports. We were allowed as many stops as we applied for, if we did not back track on that ticket. ( yes, a totally different world in 1962!). My husband was a Fulbright Lecturer, under the covering of the U.S. Educational Foundation, and I was to teach in the English Speaking elementary school. Our children would accompany me daily.
Since we had always been connected with S. Baptist denomination that had many missionaries abroad, and several natives had come to the small college where my husband was on the faculty. There were some in Bangkok, and one of the long-term missionaries gave us a couple of days tour of the City. One of the places, we visited amidst a lot of beautiful cathedrals, was an adorable cottage built in their architecture design. It then belong to the S.Baptist, they were able to buy it because the king then ( the country may have been “Siam” at that time–I have demitasse brass spoons engraved with the Crown and some say Siam, and some Thailand.
*** The reason the church was able to buy it, was because it had been one of the King’s combines’ home. She had been murdered in it, and no one wanted the building because it was thought of as being possessed by demons.
Someday, perhaps, I will contact some of the current missionaries and see if they still own it. L.B.
I am not surprised by the fear of demons. I saw rituals everywhere to keep them away.