Luck favours the bold! On the thirty first anniversary of the singer Pumpuang Duangjan’s passing, her legion of devoted followers deliberate to enter the lottery within the hopes of winning her blessings.
The passing of Pumpuang Duangjan, known as the Queen of Thai Folk Music, was commemorated yesterday by household, associates, and followers who proceed to admire the distinctive high quality of her music. This yr marks the thirty first anniversary of her passing. Pumpuang’ Double are nonetheless performed and enjoyed by many people today.
To commemorate the anniversary of Pumpuang’s passing this year, her former husband, Kraisorn Saenganan, son Petch Pumpuang, and Pumpuang’s sister, alongside along with her followers, participated in a merit-making ceremony and remembrance event on the Sala Kan Prian Sutham Rattanarat Bumroong in Thap Kradan temple, Song Phi Nong district, Suphan Buri province.
During the occasion, Kraisorn performed a ritual looking for blessings from Pumpuang before he picked up a ping pong ball containing the numbers ‘5-1-5’ in sequence. Intriguingly, these numbers corresponded with Pumpuang’s former house number, 51/15, located at Phasi temple in Bangkok. This coincidence led numerous lottery fanatics to buy tickets using this sequence as their auspicious numbers.
In addition to the numbers that have been drawn through the ceremony, lottery hopefuls used other numbers that were associated with Pumpuang’s life to select the numbers that would seem on their tickets. These numbers included her delivery date of August 4, 1961, the date of her dying on June 13, 1992, the date that marked the thirty first anniversary of her passing, and her age, which might have been sixty two years old if she had been still alive today.
Thais hold a quantity of superstitions around lottery numbers..