Yentchan Local Customs

This is an unusual item to include, but it was fascinating so I have to include it here:

At one of the villages -the same one where we saw the kids making clay pellets - the kids had somehow shot these pellets into some flowerbeds.

The consequences of such a transgression was to be (loosely) tied to a pole with an evil spirit mask looming over them, threateningly....

Some of the kids were crying - frightened by the mask no doubt (and I suppose that was the idea) - but what I found interesting is that some of the other children (who were not being punished) kind of hung around, observing their friends huddled together around this pole.

I'm not sure if the other children were being empathetic or, knowing human behavior, they were probably not unlike people who are horrified to see an accident by the side of the road, yet can't seem to turn away from it.

People are people no matter where they are, I guess.