The Phuket Vegetarian festival is an annual event held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar. During this festival, entranced devotees known as Ma Song, perform self-tortures in order to shift evil from individuals to themselves and therby bring good luck to the community. This gallery show-cases the "Piercings", a means of self-torture which involves the devotees going into a trance and getting piercings done with various implements...