{
 "schema": 1,
 "level": "kind",
 "parent": null,
 "id": "chingchok-song-hang",
 "names": {
  "th": "จิ้งจกสองหาง",
  "roman": "chingchok song hang",
  "en": "Two-tailed gecko",
  "aliases": {
   "th": [
    "จิ้งจก ๒ หาง",
    "จิ้งจกหางแฉก"
   ],
   "roman": [
    "jingjok song hang",
    "jing jok 2 hang"
   ],
   "en": [
    "forked-tail gecko charm",
    "double-tailed house gecko"
   ]
  }
 },
 "region": [
  "th"
 ],
 "axes": {
  "class": "khong_thammachat",
  "functions": [
   "chok_lap",
   "metta_maha_niyom"
  ],
  "materials": [],
  "figures": [
   "animal"
  ]
 },
 "form": {
  "type": "natural",
  "shape_th": "จิ้งจกบ้านที่หางขาดแล้วงอกใหม่เป็นสองแฉก ตัวจริงตายแล้วเก็บแห้งในตลับ หรือรูปจิ้งจกสองหางแกะจากไม้ หรือหล่อโลหะ และเป็นลายหลังพระสมเด็จ",
  "shape_en": "A house gecko whose broken tail regrew as a fork. The natural specimen is kept dried in a box; the trade also sells carved or cast two-tailed gecko figures, and th.wikipedia records a somdet with the gecko on its back.",
  "size_mm": null,
  "wearable_th": "ตัวจริงเก็บในตลับ รูปแกะเลี่ยมห้อยคอ",
  "wearable_en": "The specimen stays in a box; carved versions are cased and worn",
  "obverse_th": "",
  "obverse_en": "",
  "reverse_th": "",
  "reverse_en": "",
  "notes_en": "A natural anomaly, kin to กะลาตาเดียว: nothing conferred, nothing to feed. Tail regeneration after autotomy is ordinary biology (th.wikipedia จิ้งจก: 2–6 weeks); a fork is the uncommon outcome, which is the whole of the rarity. Modern copies are the norm and the honest seller says so."
 },
 "iconography": [
  {
   "th": "จิ้งจกหางแยกสองแฉก",
   "en": "a gecko with the tail split in two"
  }
 ],
 "origin": {
  "wat_slug": null,
  "wat_th": "วัดโพธิ์รัตนาราม ราชบุรี (พระสมเด็จหลังจิ้งจกสองหาง พ.ศ. ๒๕๒๐)",
  "wat_en": "Wat Pho Rattanaram, Ratchaburi — the one named issue, a somdet with the gecko on the reverse, c. B.E. 2520 (th.wikipedia)",
  "maker_th": "พระอธิการคง จิตตคโม (พระสมเด็จหลังจิ้งจก)",
  "maker_en": "Phra Athikan Khong Chittakhamo for that issue; the natural charm has no maker",
  "era_th": "",
  "era_en": "The belief is undated folk knowledge; one named issue is 1977",
  "place_th": "ทั่วประเทศ",
  "place_en": "Thailand",
  "first_attested": ""
 },
 "diagnostics": [
  {
   "th": "ตัวจริง: หางงอกใหม่สีคล้ำ เกล็ดหยาบกว่าลำตัว ผิวแฉกเรียบไม่มีข้อ",
   "en": "On a real specimen the regrown fork is duller and coarser-scaled than the body and lacks the original tail's segment lines — regrowth, not a second tail",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "ตัวแห้งเปราะ หด ตาโบ๋ — ของสด/ปั้นเรซินเงาผิดธรรมชาติ",
   "en": "A dried gecko is brittle, shrunken, eye-sockets sunk; a glossy plump one is resin",
   "source": "s:tradition",
   "tier": "tradition"
  },
  {
   "th": "ของแกะ/หล่อเป็นรูป ไม่ใช่ตัวสัตว์ — ก็คือรูปเคารพ ไม่ใช่ของธรรมชาติ",
   "en": "A carved or cast gecko is an image, not the anomaly; class shifts from natural talisman to consecrated object and the seller should say which",
   "source": "s:vault-classes",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  },
  {
   "th": "ไม่ต้องเสก ถ้าเสกก็ไม่เสียหาย — แต่อำนาจอยู่ที่ความผิดปกติ",
   "en": "No consecration is required for the natural piece; its claim rests on the anomaly, as with the one-eyed coconut",
   "source": "s:vault-classes",
   "tier": "catalogue"
  }
 ],
 "confusable_with": [
  {
   "id": "kala-ta-diao",
   "tell_th": "กะลาตาเดียวเป็นผลมะพร้าวผิดปกติ จิ้งจกเป็นสัตว์ผิดปกติ หมวดเดียวกัน",
   "tell_en": "Same class, different anomaly: a coconut shell with one eye versus a lizard with two tails."
  },
  {
   "id": "salika",
   "tell_th": "สาลิกาเป็นรูปนกแกะหรือหล่อ ไม่ใช่สัตว์จริง ใช้ทางเมตตา",
   "tell_en": "A salika is a carved or cast bird for speech-charm, never a real animal; a two-tailed gecko in its natural form is the animal itself."
  },
  {
   "id": "khot-kala",
   "tell_th": "คดกะลาเป็นก้อนแข็งในกะลา ของธรรมชาติเหมือนกันแต่ไม่มีรูป",
   "tell_en": "A khot kala is a concretion, formless; the gecko is a creature with a legible anomaly."
  }
 ],
 "market": {
  "search": [
   "จิ้งจกสองหาง"
  ],
  "excludes": [],
  "tier": "unknown"
 },
 "media": {
  "commons_categories": [],
  "commons_files": [
   "File:Two-tailed lizard.jpg"
  ],
  "wanted_en": "The one free file (CC BY-SA 3.0) shows a two-tailed lizard as a natural anomaly, not a Thai specimen or charm. Needed: a dried Thai house gecko in its box, and a carved two-tailed gecko amulet."
 },
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "chingchok-song-hang/chingchok-song-hang-two-tailed-lizard-9b48cc.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Two-tailed lizard.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Two-tailed_lizard.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10059777",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0",
   "author": "Albert kok",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "view": "other",
   "alt_th": "จิ้งจกสองหาง",
   "alt_en": "Two-tailed gecko — Two-tailed lizard",
   "sha256": "7b8e296f0331eb24a1b8f2616de4ba052f0c6422d3e12e0865082feb23ff986f",
   "width": 1069,
   "height": 837,
   "primary": true
  }
 ],
 "text": {
  "what_th": "จิ้งจกบ้านที่หางงอกใหม่เป็นสองแฉก ถือเป็นของหายากตามธรรมชาติ เก็บแห้งไว้เพื่อโชคลาภเมตตา ไม่ต้องเสก ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง ของแกะเลียนแบบมีมาก",
  "what_en": "A house gecko whose regrown tail forked in two, kept dried as a natural rarity for luck and favour. Nothing conferred and nothing to feed; carved imitations far outnumber the real thing.",
  "story_th": "จิ้งจกสละหางหนีศัตรูแล้วงอกใหม่ได้ใน ๒–๖ สัปดาห์ นานๆ ครั้งจะงอกเป็นสองแฉก คนไทยถือว่าตัวที่ได้เป็นของขลัง เก็บตากแห้งใส่ตลับ วัดโพธิ์รัตนาราม ราชบุรี เคยสร้างพระสมเด็จหลังเป็นจิ้งจกสองหางราว พ.ศ. ๒๕๒๐ — ลายหลังนั้นบอกว่าความเชื่อแพร่พอที่วัดจะยืมมาใช้",
  "story_en": "A gecko drops its tail to escape and regrows it in two to six weeks; now and then the regrowth forks. That animal, found dead or kept, is dried and boxed as a windfall charm. A temple in Ratchaburi put the two-tailed gecko on the back of a somdet around 1977 — evidence the belief was common enough to borrow. Ms 6983 does not mention it; this is folk knowledge, not treatise.",
  "keeping_th": "เก็บในตลับให้แห้ง ไม่ต้องบูชา ไม่ต้องเลี้ยง",
  "keeping_en": "Kept dry in its box. No offerings owed, nobody home. Safe to adopt with unknown history, the same as any natural talisman."
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:vault-classes",
  "s:th-wiki-wat-pho-rattanaram",
  "s:tradition",
  "s:commons-amulets-th"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:tradition"
  },
  "fields": {
   "axes": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:vault-classes",
    "note": "placed beside กะลาตาเดียว by analogy; not a listed member"
   },
   "origin": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:th-wiki-wat-pho-rattanaram"
   },
   "text.story_en": {
    "tier": "tradition",
    "source": "s:tradition",
    "note": "regeneration time from th.wiki จิ้งจก (not added as a source: taxonomic article); issue from s:th-wiki-wat-pho-rattanaram"
   },
   "media": {
    "tier": "catalogue",
    "source": "s:commons-amulets-th",
    "note": "licence checked 2026-09-02"
   },
   "market": {
    "tier": "inference"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "needs_verification": true,
 "updated": "2026-09-02",
 "class_facts": {
  "key": "khong_thammachat",
  "term": "เครื่องรางธรรมชาติ",
  "roman": "khrueang rang thammachat",
  "en_gloss": "natural talisman",
  "resident": "none",
  "upkeep": "none",
  "provenance_sensitivity": "low",
  "definition": "Power inherent in a rare natural object rather than conferred by rite: เหล็กไหล (leklai, a living metal), กะลาตาเดียว (a one-eyed coconut), certain woods, stones and animal parts. Impersonal but NOT consecration-based — a third thing, neither Buddha-amulet nor spirit-vessel.",
  "confidence": "medium"
 },
 "function_terms": [
  {
   "key": "chok_lap",
   "term": "โชคลาภ",
   "roman": "chok lap",
   "en": "luck and windfall",
   "definition": "Fortune arriving from outside — lottery, gifts, unexpected gain. โชค is the luck, ลาภ the thing that turns up because of it."
  },
  {
   "key": "metta_maha_niyom",
   "term": "เมตตามหานิยม",
   "roman": "metta maha niyom",
   "en": "loving-kindness and wide popularity",
   "definition": "Broad social favour — people are well-disposed, superiors are lenient, customers return. Built on เมตตา, the Buddhist virtue, and respectable to carry and to sell."
  }
 ],
 "material_terms": [],
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "th",
   "th": "ทั่วประเทศไทย",
   "en": "Thailand, not regionally specific"
  }
 ],
 "market_stats": {
  "listings": 2,
  "priced": 2,
  "median_thb": 279.0,
  "typical_thb": [
   199.0,
   359.0
  ],
  "source": "s:catalog-db",
  "tier": "catalogue",
  "note": "title matches only; delete-then-test excludes applied"
 },
 "primary_image": {
  "file": "chingchok-song-hang/chingchok-song-hang-two-tailed-lizard-9b48cc.jpg",
  "source": "commons",
  "title": "File:Two-tailed lizard.jpg",
  "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Two-tailed_lizard.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
  "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10059777",
  "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0",
  "author": "Albert kok",
  "credit": "Own work",
  "view": "other",
  "alt_th": "จิ้งจกสองหาง",
  "alt_en": "Two-tailed gecko — Two-tailed lizard",
  "sha256": "7b8e296f0331eb24a1b8f2616de4ba052f0c6422d3e12e0865082feb23ff986f",
  "width": 1069,
  "height": 837,
  "primary": true
 },
 "tier_labels": {
  "en": {
   "catalogue": "Catalogue — checkable against the corpus (catalog.db, a transcribed treatise)",
   "cited": "Cited — a named external source, linked",
   "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the wider tradition, hedged",
   "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
   "field": "Field — someone stood there"
  },
  "th": {
   "catalogue": "จากคลัง",
   "cited": "อ้างอิงแหล่ง",
   "tradition": "ตามประเพณี",
   "inference": "อนุมาน",
   "field": "พบเห็นเอง"
  }
 }
}