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I am Ariel Goodbody, your host for this show.
Today's story is for intermediate learners.
The name of the story is love is worth a bit of pain.
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It is a horror story and it's pretty scary, if I can say so myself.
It comes from Thailand.
As I mentioned before, I'm trying to include more myths and legends from around the world, and as Thailand is one of the highest visitors to our website, I thought I should include a story from there.
What I found though, when looking up myths and legends, is that a lot of them are horror stories.
There are just a lot of them about monsters and ghosts and demons and all those kind of things.
I know that in Southeast Asia horror is a very popular genre.
There are a lot of famous horror films from Japan, from example, that often get adapted into an american version, for example, the Ring.
And I know these kind of films are very popular in Thailand.
So it was interesting adapting this story.
I didn't know that much about the history that gives context to the original version, so I just tried to adapt it into a more sort of general medieval, old cultural background.
So there are no specific references to thai culture here.
Actually, the original story is just kind of a folk tale about this monster, but various details have been added in later versions to develop it into more of a story.
So again, I looked at several versions and added my own touches.
This monster in the story is originally known as Krasue in Thai or Kasu in Cambodia, but I decided to change the name to make it easier to understand if you don't know about this creature.
So as I said, this story does come with a strong warning.