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He's an expectant mother's worst nightmare and totally unrepentant. The defrocked Saraburi monk who spent six months in jail for grilling over 1,000 stillborn babies is now Thailand's foremost black magic practitioner.
"I've grilled 1,000 stillborn babies," proclaimed Nain Ae, opening up debate on the ancient Thai practice of kumon tong - grilling stillborn babies to unleash the spirit of the 'Golden Baby.'
The 50-year-old black magician who was previously a monk for 35 years, fears a few things in life and one of them is not appearing in the news.
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As a monk, Nain Ae was clandestinely supplied stillborn babies from hospitals and abortion clinics. The choicest came from the womb on Sunday, and the best day to grill them was a Tuesday, according to him. Who am I to argue? To conjure up the 'baby spirit,' it has to be grilled in the ordination hall. This explains why Nain Ae's ranch is strategically placed next door to a temple.
Before grilling began, Nain Ae would bend the fetus into position and hold it with chicken wire. "The most requested position is vertical," he explains, sparing me no detail as he points to his beaded showpiece," so the Golden Baby can be carried around for good luck in either a handbag or trouser pocket."
He'd then wrap the stillborn in sacred cloth with Buddhist designs, and roast the stillborn over hot coals for four hours until mummified, "With only the skin stretched over the skeleton, he elaborates. "It's important to pray into the fetus the whole time, telling it to be a good spirit for it's master, and to bring him prosperity."
"I tell my customers they must give offerings of Coke and sweets to the spirit baby. If they don't, I warn them, the spirit of kumon tong will dance on the end of their beds in the twilight hours, terrorizing their owners out of their own homes." As a follow up service, Nain Ae performs exorcisms. "But they don't come cheaply."
Asked if he'll resume grilling babies after his ban of practicing black magic expires this year, Nain Ae gives a cautious smile and says with equanimity: "I don't grill babies anymore." But that doesn't mean he won't dabble in black magic for the right price. "I'm always for hire," he says, adding that introducing you to a baby griller practitioner, "isn't breaking the law."
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