i know this thread has been made before in the past..but there's always new members and new stories..and i lovveee ghost stories..so share some of your experiences or stories you've all heard..
one day he decided to change the family's last name back to Xiong..the thao clan said he can do as he wish but he will always belong witht he thao clan because he grew up as one of them [excerpts]
It all depends on what happened when the mom remarried.
If, when the mother remarried, the new father
hu plig and
laig dab for the kids along with the mother,
then technically, no, he cannot change back to a Xiong. Well, officially, he can name his last name whatever, but when it comes to the religion, he cannot. What usually happens, then is, the ancestors will
looj koov the family, but I haven't heard about cell phone incidents. Maybe it's just coincidence, and unrelated.
But,
if the new father didn't do those things mentioned above,
then the kids should have never been real Thao's in the first place, so nothing should have happened.
In the Hmong tradition and culture, usually the new father will only
laig dab for the kids into the new family if
a) the biological father is deceased, or
b) if the biological father gave up all rights and responsibility for the kids. Otherwise, the biological father is still the person responsible. As far as the
hu plig part, since it's more for a healthy life than it is for ancestral worship, its importance isn't as high as a priority.