By Wichunai  Chaiboon

        In a village in Chai Nat province, there was a millionaire, Boonme, and his wife named Boonpa.  They had a daughter named Marasri.  Marasri had a lover named Chetha, but her father didn’t like him because he was a poor farmer. 

She decided to run away from her family and lived with Chetha.  They lived in an old hut in the forest.  Many years later, they had a son.  He was named Juk. 

Later Marasri became pregnant again.  Because they were   very poor, she talked with her husband about moving into her parents’ house. He agreed, and everyone set out. While they were travelling, Marasri gave birth to a baby boy.  Chetha had to leave her alone to find herbal medicine for her. While he was looking for the herbs, a snake bit him.

           Marasri had been waiting for her husband, but he didn’t come back.  She started looking for him the next morning and found him dead.  She was very sorry.  Then she had to travel with her sons.  When she came to the Chao Praya River, she couldn’t take both sons across the river at the same time.  She told the older son to wait for her on the riverbank and she took the younger one across the river.  When she arrived at the other side of the river, she put her younger son on the bank and went back to get the older son.  While she was in the middle of the river, a big hawk flew to her younger son, and took him away.  Marasri waved her hand to chase the big hawk. The older son thought his mother was calling him, so he walked into the river, and he drowned.  Marasri saw her son dying.  She was very sorry, so she killed herself by drowning to follow her dying son.

          Since then that area has been called  “ Wang Mae Look Onn.”  The people there built a shrine as a remembrance of Marasri and her sons in Moo 4 Tambon Nang Luang, Amphur Suppaya, Chai Nat.

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