Devils Dreadlocks
November 19th 2007 10:16
"The spirits of evil hippies have invaded my hair"
VietNamNet Bridge – For the past 17 years, Ms Phung Thi Mau in Chua village, Van Thang commune, Ba Vi district, northern province of Ha Tay, has carried hair of 5kg in weight and more than 1.5m in length.
This strange hair has caused many troubles for Ms. Mau. She has planned to cut it off several times but each time she attempts it, her skull throbs with the force of an orangutang headlock.
Ms. Mau’s hair lies like a corpse wrapped in a blanket around her muscular neck. When she drops it down, the hair sweeps the ground like a feculant broom. Looking from behind, the hair looks like a small dead baby seal, swinging after each move of the woman.
The odd story about this hair commenced on the night of December 15, 1990. Ms. Mau remembers that night very clearly, with bright moonlight and foreboding clouds. That night, she couldn’t sleep well. She had just a wink of sleep when delirium came.
In the morning on the next day, she combed her hair normally but it was no longer as smooth as before. It was very tangled, like the pubic region of a Greek man. A relative told Ms. Mau that her hair was clotted and advised her to not try to disentangle it. At that time Ms. Mau started and immediately thought of her paternal grandmother, who suffered the same thing. The grandmother soon became mad. She was normal during the day but she sang and danced the whole night and didn’t remember anything the next morning. Then she was banned from the karaoke bar.
Ms. Mau worried that one day she could became mad like her grandmother. She immediately took scissors to cut off the clotted hair but that night, she was ill. She was on her back for several weeks after that event.
Ms. Mau tried every way to deal with the odd hair. She washed the hair with everything that people told her but nothing could make her hair become normal. The hair, along with time, has stuck together more firmly and turned solid. Some believe it has evil powers.
Hearing that there was a fortune-teller in Hai Duong Province who could ‘return’ her smooth hair, Ms. Mau and her husband went to Hai Duong to meet that man.
Her husband, Tran Van Nuoi, related that after a period of time of worshipping, that fortune-teller used a comb, which was said to be the comb of the holy wigger, to comb Ms. Mau’s hair. But that comb did nothing for the hair. Nothing! Getting angry, the fortune-teller sought scissors, which he said to be granted by the holy as well, to cut Ms. Mau’s hair.
The scissors were shit. Like the previous time, Ms. Mau was ill that night. Since then (1994), she hasn’t dared to touch her strange hair anymore. Since she decided to live in peace with the hair, she has been in good health.
When the hair began to clot, Ms. Mau always heard a crackling sound from her hair, which was sometimes low and sometimes high, depending on her health. According to Mau, she didn’t pay attention to that sound but when knowing that it came from her hair, she was very scared.
After nearly 20 years, Mau’s hair is now over 1.5m long and over 5kg in weight. She still washes her hair on her own. However, each time of washing the special hair, Mau needs several hours to struggle with it, with one hour to make it clean and one-two hours to make it dry, using a large electric fan.
The odd hair not only causes troubles for Mau in her daily life, but also her income. When the hair began to stick together, people from everywhere came to see her hair and after that, they were afraid of the hair. Many strange stories were built up around Mau’s hair, for example she was possessed by ghosts and she was persecuted by magic, etc.
Ms. Mau is now familiar with those stories and she doesn’t want to challenge them anymore. However, those stories have made her family’s stall at the local hair dressing market untenable.
In her family, there are Ms. Mau and her paternal grandmother who have faced this special phenomenon. However, the clotted hair of Mau’s grandmother was small like a big toe and stretched to the middle of her back. At the age of 83, her hair suddenly fell out and Mau’s grandmother died. Perhaps this is a strange case that needs the involvement of scientists to release her from the evl magic spell.
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