Comments on: Bangkok’s Fertility Shrine: Chao Mae Tuptim

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:24:30 +0000

Hi FP. Good luck on your coming novel. And if you do find the need to know more, contact Philip Cornwel-Smith (author of Very Thai and contributor to Bangkok 101).

I research and write about Thailand because it’s interesting. Philip has made a career out of it.

Btw: A lot miss the ‘Maybe’ tucked in my post. Things are not always what they seem in Thailand so inserting a maybe makes sense.
Catherine recently posted…Chula’s Marching Song: John Brown’s Body. Thai Style

By: Forex Programming

Forex Programming — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:12:05 +0000

Thanks for a terrific post on the Chao Mae Tuptim shrine. I am setting a scene there in my new novel and whilst you have WAY more information than I need, I was interested to learn more about the background to the shrine, which I visited in Feb 2008. And like your friend Amy, I have friends who attribute both their children to the mystic powers of Chao Mae Tuptim.

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By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:17:35 +0000

Hi Angela, what kind of background were you looking for? What year? William Warren has interesting (more personal) information in his book about Bangkok (I was saving it for a future post).

And please note: I am not a trained historian, so the above research is not set in gold. And that is why I ended with ‘maybe’ :-)

By: Angela Savage

Angela Savage — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:55:22 +0000

Hi Catherine,
Thanks for a terrific post on the Chao Mae Tuptim shrine. I am setting a scene there in my new novel and whilst you have WAY more information than I need, I was interested to learn more about the background to the shrine, which I visited in Feb 2008. And like your friend Amy, I have friends who attribute both their children to the mystic powers of Chao Mae Tuptim.
Anyway, thanks again. I’ll be reading your blog more often in the future.
Best wishes,
Angela (in Melbourne, Australia)
.-= Angela Savage hopes you will read…Karaoke competition results =-.

By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:35:01 +0000

Tonight I was watching a program called Dead Art. The narrator takes you through cemeteries in Paris, pointing out the different people buried there. But not just the people, the fabulous sculpture is highlighted too. When she came to Victor Noir's tomb, I thought AH HA! Maybe Thailand is not so very different than the west? From wikipedia...

Victor Noir, (27 July 1848 in Attigny, Vosges — 10 January 1870 in Paris), was a French journalist who is famous for the manner of his death and its political consequences. His tomb in Paris later became a fertility symbol.

...will enhance fertility, bring a blissful sex life, or, in some versions, a husband within the year. As a result of the legend, those particular components of the oxidized bronze statue are rather well-worn.

In 2004 a fence was erected around the statue of Noir, to deter superstitious people from touching the statue. Due to the fake protests of the "female population of Paris" settled by a French TV anchor however, it was torn down again. So the deterioration of the statue continues.