Hundreds with serious illness visit woman’s house, hope to be cured by being stepped over | Society | Thanh Nien Daily

Hundreds of people gather in a house in the northern province of Thai Nguyen every day, waiting for a woman to step over their bodies and “drive away their illness”.

Pham Thi Phu, 43, has for 10 years been “curing” people with serious illnesses like cancer, polio, mental illness and autism, rumors claim.

In the large yard in her house in Song Cong town, around 100 people, both women and men, lie face down in a line on the brick floor. They are all in a pair of shorts, which are dropped during the “treatment” to show their rear.

Phu then steps on them, one after another, claiming to transmit electricity to the patients through her bare feet to “cure their illness.”

For severe cases, patients are hold upside down with their head dipped in a basin of water charged with her electricity.

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The fee is not fixed and left to the patient.

The treatment seems to work since there is a group of young, healthy-looking people outside her house who have come to say thanks for curing them.

There is just one minor problem: the group is always there in her front yard to show their gratitude.

“When I came here for the first time, I met a group of young men and women, who told me they had come to thank her for her wonderful treatment,” Tran Van Thang, a 65-year old man with lung cancer from Hanoi, said.

“But after a few months, when I came back to her house, I saw the same group with the same thanks.”

Thang, who said he did not improve from her treatment, added that he then decided to get treated at a clinic in the capital.

Hundreds with serious illness visit woman’s house, hope to be cured by being stepped over | Society | Thanh Nien Daily