Villagers in Yothaka, in Thailand’s Chachoengsao province, ended a period of drought by building a giant erect penis statue.
Farmers in the area had been concerned that there hadn’t been enough rain recently and that water from irrigation canals was too salty, which damages crops.
In order to call forth rain, a giant penis statue, or “Palad Khik”, was erected on June 9.
The local village headman, Chamnan Kenthongdaeng, told a press conference that on June 11, just two days after the giant penis was installed it had started raining, with a shower that lasted about half an hour.
He told Pattaya News that erecting a Palad Khik, representing fertility and new growth, was a local tradition going back decades, to the time of his grandparents.
There is still no scientific proof to correlate the erected penis with rainfall.
