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"MAE-NAK" The infamous ghost story of Thailand. She a young woman named Nak, who lived on the banks of the Phra Khanong Canal, and her undying love for her husband, Mak. When she pregnant, Her husband Mak is conscripted and sent to war. When he's at war Nak and her stiilborn child both die during a difficult childbirth. When Mak returns home, he finds his loving wife and child waiting for him. Neighbors who try to warn him that he is living with a ghost are all killed. One day, as Mae Nak is preparing food, she drops a lime off the porch. In her haste to retrieve it, she stretches her arm to pick it up from the ground below. Mak sees it and at last realizes his wife is a ghost. Terrified, he tries to find a way to flee without alarming her. In her grief, Mae Nak terrorizes the people of Phra Khanong, furious at them for causing Mak to leave her. However, Mae Nak's ghost is captured by a powerful exorcist. Confining her in an earthen jar, he throws it into the canal. There are differing versions of the rest of the story. In one, an old couple new to Phra Khanong finds the jar while fishing; in another two fishermen dredge up the jar. Nak is freed when they opened it. Mae Nak is conquered again by the venerable monk Somdet Phra Phutthachan (To Phrommarangsi). The learned monk confines her spirit in the bone of her forehead and binds it in his waistband. Legend says the waistband is currently in the possession of the royal family. Admiral Prince Abhakara Kiartivongse, Prince of Chumphon, also claimed to have had the relic. In an alternative version, the monk assured Mae Nak that in a future life she would be reunited with her beloved husband, and thus she voluntarily departed for the afterlife. A shrine dedicated to Mae Nak is at Wat Mahabut. In 1997, the shrine was relocated to the nearby Suan Luang District of modern Bangkok.