Possession

As the final day of rememberance arrived, we all got ready to head over to one of my dad's cousins house. Upon arrival, all my grandparents, great uncles and aunties were quietly chatting amongst themselves, whilst my aunties and second aunties were all cooking away, in order to provide offerings for our ancestors.

Once the food was all prepared, we all gathered in the living room and quietly listened to one of the elders pray, and give thanks. One by one, we all lit incense and placed them respectively in the little cups.

One of my great aunts then started naming all our immediate ancestors, including great uncles, great aunties, great grandfathers and mothers, and great great grand fathers and mothers, however since there were so many to name, she just generalized and named "chinese ancestors (chinese grandfather)."

All of a sudden out of no where, my aunty who is an extremely quiet person sat up and whacked the person next to her twice across the head, and pointed at my great grandmother and shouted "your an ingrateful grandchild, you can't even name your grandfather," and my great aunt's reaction was just like my reaction. We sat there paralized until we realised what was going on, and my great aunt then replied "but I did mention you, chinese ancestors". My possessed aunty continued to shout and point and then calmed down and apologized to the person she had hit and said "sorry I hit you, you aren't even related".

As quickly as my great grandfather came, he left my aunties body and my aunty leaped up from the ground and layed unconscious for a few minutes.

While all this happened, I was absolutely clueless and had no idea what was going on. One of my other great aunts told me off for not taking any photo's or videoing the situation, but at the time I had no idea what to do because I didn't want to be disrespectful.

I know it may be hard to believe, as I still don't know what or how to explain what and how it happened. But apparently possessions occur quiet often amongst my immediate relatives. My great great grandfather is Chinese, and whenever he possesses my grandmother (who doesn't speak a word of Chinese), my grandmother sits there speaking broken Khmer mixed with Chinese, whilst stroking her imaginary long beard (like old chinese men). Too many stories to write up, but I still find it extremely strange and bizarre as I don't really know what to believe.

-Allan-