Before the witch can die, the spirit has to find a body into which the Pop will be transmitted by consuming some saliva from the old sorceress.
One rumored way to get rid of them is to call in a healing dancer, chasing away the Pop by spinning dance.
The Pop was mentioned in Ramphan Philap (รำพันพิลาป, "Lament of Bewailment"), a poem by Sunthon Phu around 1842–1843, in a single line of text.
[3] In November 1892, coinciding with the reign of King Rama V, there was a record of a Pop in the present city of Uttaradit.
Although already old, but Ta Puang's skin was still white, radiant, and firm, unlike that of ordinary elderly.
Not long after he came to live there, three local young women died of unknown reasons in a row.
The story of the Pop of Uttaradit was recorded in Vajrayana Viset (วชิรญาณวิเศษ), which was a publication distributed among the upper-class circles at that time.
To make matters worse, there are also rumors that they have previously resided at Wat Suan Kaew in Nonthaburi Province, regarding this issue, Phra Phayom Kalayano the abbot of the temple said, "It's nonsense and delusional.
In February 2024, a young woman told her story on TikTok that she was 6 months pregnant and on her second pregnancy.
[15] In 2023, Tee Yod, "Death Whisperer" became the fastest Thai film to gross 100 million baht of the year.
This ghost is a popular subject in the same manner as Krasue or Krahang and humorous depictions,[25] as well as gory ones, are common in Thai comics.