... listening to the sorcerer They have to take meal before the dead so as they are capable for taking the dead to go away Apart from introduction, inviting to take meal and ending like other chants, there ... for the new dead 2.2.1 Raising spirit of and washing the dead Raising spirit of the dead, knifing the window, alarming, notifying, bathing the dead with fragrant water, preparing coffin, hiring ... functions have not been concerned On such spirit, it is to study in the dissertation Thai funeral rite: Ritual process to create a new life for the dead (Thai funeral in Phu Yen, Son La) to contribute...