For additional information:
Barley Norton Songs for the Spirits: Music and Mediums in Modern Vietnam. Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2009.
The Ninth Princess is flirtatious, giggly and sways seductively as she dances with a feathered fan or a basket of flowers. She comes from the coastal village of Sòng Sơn in central Vietnam, and is associated with the Earth Palace. Male mediums often delight in incarnating this most feminine of spirits, because they can display their mastery over the graceful, elegant and dainty gestures which epitomize Vietnamese ideas of womanly beauty. The Ninth Princess is often incarnated as the main guiding spirit for young women who are seeking a husband. She is very efficacious in dealing with troubles of the heart, can enhance appearance and seductiveness, and can also bestow the gift of prophecy (fortune telling).