Saved by Old Wisdom

I'm always interested in the function of folklore - and this time, it saved an entire village of "Sea Gypsies" from the Tsunami in Thailand. Sometimes it's better to save the questioning-the-conventional-wisdom for later.

"The elders told us that if the water recedes fast it will come back fast and will reappear in the same quantity in which it disappeared," says the 65-year-old sea gypsy.

Link to story in The Nation: Bangkok's Independent Newspaper :
SAVED BY OLD WISDOM: Gypsies know their sea