UDON THANI: Villagers from across the Northeast and as far away as Laos have been flocking to get a glimpse of a high-profile newlywed couple in Phen District. This couple usually are not celebrities, however a local Udon man and a female reticulated python he has fallen love with.
The pleased groom, 35-year-old Sathian Khenkutrang, stated he believes that he and the 12-foot snake were lovers in a former life. In the previous incarnation, K. Sathian was a bodyguard to Phrayanakho, a naga deity who lived in Beung Chuan in Tambon Na Phu, Phen district, he said.
K. Sathian fell in love with Sathida, the deity’s daughter. Phrayanakho, however, did not approve of the relationship and had K. Extraordinary executed. He then forged out his daughter, who wasted away and died of a broken heart.
Sathida’s spirit passed through a variety of incarnations in search of her lost lover earlier than being reunited with Sathian on this life, throughout which she happens to have the limbless type of a snake, K. Sathian defined.
On the morning of April 6, on hearing of this bizarre case of herpephillia, a Daily News reporter headed to Na Phu to find the couple, who had been staying at the house of Yuan “Pu Yuan” Kongsuwan, 75, a spirit medium who had been guiding them.
When the reporter obtained to the home, nonetheless, K. Pu Yuan stated that the couple had left after being challenged by an assistant village chief a day earlier.
K. Pu Yuan mentioned that Samrong Sinthutham, assistant chief of Na Phu Village 2, had come to his home and accused K. Sathian of being a rip-off artist. He demanded K. Sathian prove the reality of his story about his wife by accurately predicting the numbers in an upcoming lottery draw.
When villagers who had come to see the couple saw what K. Samrong was doing, they became offended and began to shout at him. In the top K. Samrong needed to flee for his life to keep away from being lynched.
Later, nevertheless, K. Samrong informed the native information workplace to announce that the police and provisional livestock authorities were on the way to arrest K. Sathian and confiscate his unwieldy wife. K. Sathian due to this fact determined to go again to his residence village, Ban Don Yannang in Udon’s Muang district.
On listening to the news of K. Sathian’s expulsion, the chief of Tambon Na Phu, little doubt ruing the lost income from guests desirous to catch a glimpse of the cross-species couple, called a meeting of the village committee. The committee decided to invite the couple again to remain in Wat Na Phu. The report, however, did not say whether or not K. Sathian would settle for the offer.
The reporter then headed to Ban Don Yanang to find K. Sathian and his serpent bride. The highway heading to the village was full of site visitors brought on by folks heading to see the couple. Cars had been parked along the roadside for a full 5 kilometers. K. Sathian advised the newshound that when he returned to the village, a miracle had happened: a storm sprang up out of nowhere, pulling down a tent erected exterior his home, ripping the roof clean off the dwelling.
K. Sathian mentioned that he became very dejected at this and began to assume that, if he couldn’t be joyful together with his spouse in this life, perhaps it will be higher for the pair to die in order that they could probably be reunited in the subsequent life in additional suitable forms.
That night time, K. Sathian and his wife had to sleep within the small, half-destroyed house along with his aunt and two nephews. His wife, apparently sad with this arrangement, bit his hand in the evening, he said.
At three pm that afternoon, the onlookers have been joined by Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Teerachai Saenkaew, who had come to see what all of the fuss was about and supply some recommendation.
K. Teerachai informed K. Sathian that the government “was worried” about how he was living and joked that he would help discover him a human spouse if he favored.
K. Sathian replied that his snake was the one wife for him.
Saying he was apprehensive about the couple’s well being, K. Teerachai advised K. Sathian to maintain his spouse in a cage at evening, when pythons like to go out and hunt for prey.
K. Theerachai said he would instruct livestock officers to give K. Sathian some tips on feeding reptiles so he wouldn’t have “any problems”.
The minister also called for the public to not get too worked up over the couple, saying that it was just “a man and his snake”, nothing to get too excited about.
As for the wedding, K. Theerachai said it was a private belief, which was OK, however he warned folks to not consider every little thing they heard.
He additionally said that he was pleased to see the impact the couple have been having on the local economic system. He cautioned people, although, to maintain their distance from K. Sathian’s wife, especially when she is hungry.
K. Theerachai stated that he hadn’t introduced a psychiatrist together with him as he didn’t need to leap to conclusions about K. Sathian’s psychological state..g