The Wat Bang Phra Tattoo Festival kick off in west of Bangkok

Monk doing tattoo on the back of a Thai pious Bouddhist inside a temple, in Nakhon Chai Si district, Thailand, about 50 km west of Bangkok, on March 7, 2015. Thousands of Thais people gathered at the Wat Bang Phra Shrine located in Nakhon Chai Si region, (about 50km west of Bangkok) to see the Wat Bang Phra Tattoo Festival where first, some of them will be possessed by the spirit of the animals which is tattooed on their skin, by running through the huge crowd gathered front of the main temple and than will finally receive powerful protective tattoos made by monks and thai people against evil spirit and bad luck. (Photo by Guillaume Payen/NurPhoto) (Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)