article_snippet: A devotee acts like a tiger while under the spell of the 'magic tattoo' during the annual festival at Wat Bangphra Buddist temple in Thailand .
article_snippet: Wearers often a deep trance and may take on the characteristics of Wearers animal tattoos.
article_snippet: Often, during that process of tattooing, devotees enter a deep, meditative-like trance.
article_snippet: It's believed that adherents who fall under such a spell will then take on characteristics of the animals that they have tattooed on they bodies, growling like a tiger, for example.
article_snippet: Those who invoke the spirit of Those who invoke the spirit of their animal tattoos animal tattoos may need to be subdued and soothed before entering the Bangphra temple, similar to how a captured animal would need to be calmed down.
article_snippet: A devotee in a state of trance, and clad in silver amulets, mimics an animal while visiting the Bangphra temple to pay his respects .
article_snippet: This particular devotee, also in a state of trance, mimics the tiger that he has tattooed on he chest .