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The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is a religious festival annual event held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. It attracts crowds of spectators because of many of the unusual religious rituals that are performed. Many religious devotees will slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other self destructive acts, although the devotees do not suffer any harm. This is attributed to spirits that...
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The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is a religious festival annual event held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar on the island of Phuket in southern Thailand. It attracts crowds of spectators because of many of the unusual religious rituals that are performed. Many religious devotees will slash themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks with sharp objects and commit other self destructive acts, although the devotees do not suffer any harm. This is attributed to spirits that are said to protect the devotees
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