Welcome to Roon soup, a podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

Enjoy. Today on Roon Soup, all the way from the Land of Smiles, we welcome Peter Jenks or just Jenks.

Peter is the author of the recently published The Tyre Cult, and so we shall inevitably be speaking about the fascinating subject of Thai animism and magic.

Jenks welcome aboard.

Thank you very much.

It's nice to be here.

Oh good indeed.

No I'm very much looking forward to it and given the book that you have recently put out I'm rather interested in the traditional question number one. Jenks were you a weird kid? Yeah. I think my first sex was with a ghost. That's a good

start to an interview isn't it? Yeah And I think that's actually that's more common

than what people realize.

And yeah, I've always been close to ghosts,

always seeing ghosts, always kind of live with them and just got used to their

presence. And then wherever you go, you end up in the same vein in whatever country that you're living in.

Do you know, when you say your first sex was with a ghost, my...

I have a similar story of Incubus Succubus,

a kind of nightmare sex experience that wasn't necessarily all that bad at a sort of

of puberty, onset of puberty age myself. So I wonder if I technically fall into that category as well now that you

mention it. Well you know I think it's a lot more common than what we realize

where we have wet dreams and I think it's a lot to do with the ghost coming into us and enjoying us while we're at our

sexual transition.

And so that was one of your, I mean presumably this is when you're talking about it at a similar sort of early

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