Laotians believe that "Phi (the spirits of nature) control people's lives and can cause illness." Illness also may be caused by losing one of the body's ____ souls or by a sorcerere who can cast a spell by projecting foreign objects into a person's body.
Illness also may be caused by losing one of the body's thirty two souls or by a sorcerer who can cast  a spell by projecting foreign objects into a person's body.