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 aren’t celebrities, however a neighborhood Udon man and a feminine reticulated python he has fallen love with.
The happy groom, 35-year-old Sathian Khenkutrang, mentioned he believes that he and the 12-foot snake had been 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 stated.
K. Sathian fell in love with Sathida, the deity’s daughter. Phrayanakho, nonetheless, did not approve of the connection and had K. Sathian executed. He then forged out his daughter, who wasted away and died of a damaged coronary heart.
Sathida’s spirit passed by way of numerous incarnations looking for her lost lover earlier than being reunited with Sathian on this life, during which she occurs to have the limbless form of a snake, K. Sathian defined.
On the morning of April 6, on listening to of this bizarre case of herpephillia, a Daily News reporter headed to Na Phu to find the couple, who were staying on the home of Yuan “Pu Yuan” Kongsuwan, 75, a spirit medium who had been guiding them.
When the reporter received to the home, however, K. Pu Yuan mentioned that the couple had left after being challenged by an assistant village chief a day earlier.
K. Pu Yuan said that Samrong Sinthutham, assistant chief of Na Phu Village 2, had come to his house and accused K. Sathian of being a scam artist. He demanded K. Sathian prove the reality of his tale about his wife by correctly predicting the numbers in an upcoming lottery draw.
When villagers who had come to see the couple noticed what K. Samrong was doing, they grew to become indignant and began to shout at him. In How-to . Samrong had to flee for his life to keep away from being lynched.
Later, however, K. Samrong told the local news office to announce that the police and provisional livestock authorities had been on the way in which to arrest K. Sathian and confiscate his unwieldy spouse. K. Sathian subsequently determined to move again to his home village, Ban Don Yannang in Udon’s Muang district.
On hearing the news of K. Sathian’s expulsion, the chief of Tambon Na Phu, little doubt ruing the misplaced income from visitors desirous to catch a glimpse of the cross-species couple, called a gathering of the village committee. The committee determined to invite the couple back to remain in Wat Na Phu. The report, nevertheless, did not say whether or not K. Sathian would settle for the provide.
The reporter then headed to Ban Don Yanang to search out K. Sathian and his serpent bride. The highway heading to the village was filled with visitors brought on by individuals heading to see the couple. Cars were parked alongside the roadside for a full 5 kilometers. K. Sathian informed the newshound that when he returned to the village, a miracle had happened: a storm sprang up out of nowhere, knocking down a tent erected exterior his house, ripping the roof clean off the dwelling.
K. Sathian stated that he became very dejected at this and began to suppose that, if he couldn’t be pleased together with his wife in this life, possibly it will be higher for the pair to die in order that they might be reunited within the next life in more compatible forms.
That night time, K. Sathian and his wife had to sleep within the small, half-destroyed home together with his aunt and two nephews. His spouse, apparently unhappy with this arrangement, bit his hand in the night, he said.
At 3 pm that afternoon, the onlookers have been joined by Deputy Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Teerachai Saenkaew, who had come to see what all the fuss was about and offer some advice.
K. Teerachai told K. Sathian that the federal government “was worried” about how he was living and joked that he would assist find him a human wife if he favored.
K. Sathian replied that his snake was the one spouse for him.
Saying he was apprehensive in regards to the couple’s health, K. Teerachai suggested K. Sathian to maintain his wife in a cage at night, when pythons prefer to go out and hunt for prey.
K. Theerachai mentioned he would instruct livestock officers to give K. Sathian some tips about feeding reptiles so he wouldn’t have “any problems”.
The minister also referred to as for the general public not to get too worked up over the couple, saying that it was just “a man and his snake”, nothing to get too enthusiastic about.
As for the marriage, K. Theerachai said it was a private belief, which was OK, but he warned folks not to consider every thing they heard.
He also stated that he was pleased to see the impact the couple were having on the local economic system. He cautioned people, although, to maintain their distance from K. Sathian’s wife, particularly when she is hungry.
K. Theerachai mentioned that he hadn’t introduced a psychiatrist along with him as he didn’t want to jump to conclusions about K. Sathian’s psychological state..