Ma Phae Wah
nature_spirit earth Burmese single tradition · 1
Ma Phae Wah is a Burmese nat (spirit) and the guardian spirit of the graveyards and cemeteries in Myanmar. She makes her home in the cemetery, but come midnight, she hoists a coffin onto her shoulder and shuffles through town with her long hair waving in the spectral breeze. Woe to the household where she stops and lays her casket on the doorstep, for someone in that family, usually a child, will soon sicken and die.
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“In the late 1990s, Ma Phae Wah appeared in the dream of Tine Tayar Sayadaw, a prominent Buddhist monk from Kayin State. He announced her intention to eat the flesh of babies. The sayadaw suggested that she dine on dogs instead.”
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