This is what it looks like when you push a shovel through your face

The extreme body-modification of Phuket’s Vegetarian Festival skewers belief.

As it pitches forward in a spirit-possessed trance toward its explosive finale, here’s a video of a mah song’s painful preparations.

 

Video, photo: AFP

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