Shrine that tells a Tale of love, loss, and legacy

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00:00In the city of Bhattani, where Chinese and Thai cultures come together, there is a small child with a big story.

00:19The Lim Gournail Child is not just a place to pray.

00:21It's a story about love, sadness, and family that people still talk about today.

00:26The legend has it that Lim Gournail was a loving sister who traveled all the way from China to Bhattani.

00:31She wanted to bring her brother back home to take care of their sick mother.

00:35But when she got there, she found out her brother had married a local woman and didn't want to leave.

00:40Feeling very sad and disappointed,

00:42the legend has it that Lim Gournail sadly took her own life by hanging herself from a tree.

00:47People said that before she died, she cursed the mask her brother was building.

00:52Since then, Lightning would strike the mask whenever someone tried to finish it.

00:56Her brothers later buried her near the mask,

00:58and a lot of people made a statue from the tree to remember her.

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