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"Tingmoang" is a deceptive figure in the shape of a human, made of old clothes, it stands on a cross, sometimes even wearing a hat to put in the fields to scare away other animals from coming to eat or destroy plants. Crops are often hung in the middle of a field, and when the wind blows, the clothes are torn and fluttering like a flying hovering hover, causing other animals, especially birds, to be afraid to destroy the crops.
In addition to protecting crops, Tingmoang is believed to be able to protect against the evil spirits, drought, infectious diseases, cholera, or smallpox that plague their villages. In order to avoid the ghost from their village, the villagers made a fuss. The head is usually made of earthenware, and the charcoal is painted on the buttocks to make it look ugly, and it is attached to a body made of wood or straw and worn with old clothes. They tied it to the front door of their respective houses. At this time, Tingmoang did not replace humans to scare animals like Tingmoang in the fields, but Ting Moang represented a giant or a monster guarding the front door of temples, to prevent ghosts or diseases to harm people in their homes or villages.
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