<p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-275b1bc0-af3e-3f67-2019-c1d425c9ec87">For the past three years, as part of a growing trend which has now hit the </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lucky-chucky-thai-spirit-dolls-delight-disturb-034040701.html?soc_src=mail&amp;soc_trk=ma">international headlines</a>, increasing numbers of what appear to be middle class, reasonably well-educated women have been purchasing ‘luuk thep’ – literally ‘angel children’ – cheap plastic Chinese-manufactured dolls which are then considerably marked up in price and blessed, either by Buddhist monks or spiritual</p>