https://wichaa.net/amulets/2026-09-03T00:00:00ZNan Peacockhttps://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/cha-ping/2026-09-03T00:00:00Z

A child's modesty plate worn on a waist cord — brass, silver, nak, gold or coconut shell; heart or leaf for girls, shield for boys. The Stockholm museum that bought a set in Bangkok in 1887 catalogued them as amulets, and the Thai article notes the Tamil cousin is a talisman against spirits.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/ai-khai/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The boy-spirit of Wat Chedi in Sichon, the biggest devotional wave since Jatukham — asked for lottery luck and repaid in firecrackers and toy soldiers. The amulet carries the devotion; the vow-keeping is the keeping.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/bat-quai/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A mirror in an octagonal frame of the eight trigrams, hung outside above the door and facing away, to turn back harmful qi from a road or a building edge. Not worn, not venerated: an impersonal diagram doing a job at the threshold. Vietnamese gương bát quái, Thai กระจกยันต์แปดทิศ.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/bia-kae/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A cowrie shell loaded with sealed mercury and bound in cord or foil — the classic 'undoer' that turns aside harm and bad medicine. The formulary in this corpus carries a making ascribed to Luang Pu Bun of Wat Klang Bang Kaew.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/bo-min-gaung/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Images of Bo Min Gaung, the most venerated weikza of modern Burmese Buddhism: born near Mount Popa in 1880, died there in 1952. Devotees hold that he did not die as others do, that he bestows dreams, wealth and protection, and his image sits on household altars and travels as a locket. A named being venerated through the object, which is what places it with the devas rather than with Buddha amulets.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/bua/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Vietnamese talisman: a paper written with Chinese or Nôm characters and talismanic strokes, folded into a cloth pouch and worn, or pasted in the house. The word bùa also covers coin charms, jade and metal pieces, and spoken spells; power sits in the writing and the rite, nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/chan-mak/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A quid of betel a revered monk himself chewed, dried and kept — a bodily relic in the most literal sense, priced accordingly in the living market. Power is the master's barami; keeping is plain respect.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/chingchok-song-hang/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

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.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/chuchok/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The jataka's tireless beggar, carried by sellers and askers on the logic that no one ever refused him. A statue-and-pendant devotion of the marketplace.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/dat-lone/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The alchemical ball of the Burmese weikza tradition: mercury or iron fired through the stages until it is held to be finished. Carried for invulnerability and long life, and for the adept a step toward becoming a weikza. The Burmese counterpart of Thai lek lai — but lek lai is fetched from a cave and a dat-lone is made in a fire.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/fu-talisman/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Taoist paper talisman: a yellow strip written in red or black with commands to spirits and asemic strokes, sealed, and then pasted over a door, carried folded, or burned into water and drunk. Chinese shrines in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore issue them; Thai retail calls them ยันต์ฮู้จีน. Power in the writing and the seal, nobody home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/hanuman/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A figure of Hanuman, Rama's white-monkey general of the Ramakien, made as a charm. The old treatise carves him from root or moulds him from herbs and has the bearer hold him in the mouth; today he is a cast figure or medallion at the neck.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/hun-phayon/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

An effigy — figure, cloth, or metal — animated by yantra and spell to act as a servant or guardian. The occupant is a compelled animation rather than a named ghost or venerated deva, which is what makes it its own class.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/in-yantra/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Burmese in: a cabalistic square whose cells hold numerals and letters, cast from the recipient's birth date and time by an in-saya or weikza of the in path. Drawn on paper or cloth, engraved on metal, or tattooed. The Burmese counterpart of the Thai yantra, with a grid where the Thai sheet has figures.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/jade-buddha-burmese/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A Buddha pendant carved from Burmese jadeite: stone from the Hpakant mines in Kachin State, cut and traded in Mandalay, sold in Thailand as 'genuine Burma jade'. A Buddha image with nobody home; the whole question is the stone — jadeite or nephrite, untreated or bleached and dyed.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/jatukham/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A large disc bearing the guardian devas of Wat Phra Mahathat, Nakhon Si Thammarat — Thao Jatukham and Thao Rammathep, later read as one being. The 2007 boom made it a national wealth phenomenon for a season; a deva venerated through the object, nothing to feed.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/jimat/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The written amulet of the Malay world: Quranic verses, names of God or a numbered square, set down in Arabic on paper or cloth by a teacher or bomoh, folded small and carried, tied to a vehicle or hung in a house. Power sits in the writing and the hand that wrote it; nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/kala-ta-diao/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A coconut shell with a single eye where every normal shell has three — a natural anomaly, not a crafted thing, carved (often into Rahu) or kept whole. The rarity IS the charm.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/keris/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The double-edged dagger of the Malay-Javanese world: asymmetric base, straight or odd-waved blade, pattern-welded pamor. Kept as pusaka — a sanctified heirloom held to carry tuah, and in Javanese belief an isi or presence of its own — washed and oiled once a year, never drawn idly, never pointed.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/khmer-bronze-amulet/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A small Khmer-style bronze — naga-enthroned Buddha, crowned Buddha, or deity — worn as an amulet or kept on the altar. Genuine Angkorian pieces are antiquities with a legal problem attached; most of what circulates is modern casting in the style.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/khmer-katha/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A metal sheet inscribed with a Pali gatha in Khmer letters and rolled into a tube: the Cambodian ancestor of the Thai takrut. Power sits in the inscription and the rite; nobody is home and nothing is owed.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/khmer-yantra-cloth/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A cloth drawn with Khom-letter yantra in the Cambodian tradition — hung from the house beam, folded into a pocket, or tied on a fighter. Power lives in the inscription and the rite; nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/khot-kala/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A stone-hard concretion found grown inside a coconut — one of the คด family of impossible stones found in living things. Kept whole as found; power inherent, none to feed.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/khun-phaen/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pressed tablet in the classic arch — named for the epic's charm-master, and the one amulet whose material story matters as much as its form. Some are pure powder; some are worked with other material, and the difference does not show on the surface.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/kuan-im/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pendant or small image of Guanyin, Avalokitesvara in her white-robed female form, the compassion figure of Thai-Chinese households. The classic body is carved jade, worn on a cord.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/kuman-thong/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A child figure that is not a depiction but a home: a bound child-spirit, raised as family — fed sweet red drink and rice, named, spoken to, asked for help. The corpus holds the historical making in full, framed as ethnography, at manuscript 6983.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/lao-phra-khrueang/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Amulets issued by Lao temples — tablets, medallions, small casts — modelled on the Lan Xang altar bronzes: the rain-calling standing Buddha, the Phra Bang, the seated earth-toucher. Nobody home, nothing owed.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/lao-yan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A yantra written in Lao Tham, the Lanna-family sacred script of Lan Xang and Isan, carried on cloth, in a takrut, on palm leaf, or on skin. Power lives in the letters and the rite; nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/lek-lai/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A dark lustrous metal the tradition holds to be alive — drawn from caves by rite, said to drink honey and turn aside blades. Power inherent in the thing itself; the category every faker loves, which is its own caution.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/locket/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A monk's photograph sealed under glass or resin, often with powder, hair, or robe-cloth packed behind the image — a portable reliquary in costume jewellery's clothes.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/luang-pu-thuat/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Amulets bearing Luang Pu Thuat, the Ayutthaya-period southern monk who is said to have turned seawater fresh. The first run is a wan-powder tablet from Wat Chang Hai in 1954; later runs are medallions and cast figures, carried for narrow escape.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/luk-om/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A small consecrated ball — herb-and-powder paste, a thread-wound paper yantra, or an inscribed lead sheet worked round — held in the mouth or carried, for invulnerability and evasion. Power in the yantra and the chant; nobody home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/luk-sakot/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Small incised lead beads, pierced and strung, named for the function สะกด — subduing, putting to sleep — and now sold beside takrut as invulnerability-and-evasion beads. Power in the letters and the chant; nobody home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/mit-mo/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A knife forged and inscribed as an instrument of the doctor-of-spirits — for cutting what binds, not what bleeds. Manuscript 6983 in this corpus records a ten-iron forge recipe from Wat Pradu Song Tham.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/mustika/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A natural stone or nodule the Malay-Javanese world holds to carry its own tuah — a mineral, a bezoar cut from an animal (geliga), or a 'pearl' claimed from a plant or creature. Found, not made; usually ring-set. The Indonesian market adds a khodam, a resident spirit, which the vault's natural-talisman class does not carry — noted, not adopted.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/nang-kwak/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The shop-keeper's lady, hand raised in the customer-calling gesture — shelf statue and pendant both. Venerated with respect and small offerings; every market in the country works under her hand.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/nat-figure/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Figures of the nats, the spirit-deities venerated in Myanmar alongside Buddhism: the 37 Great Nats headed by Thagyamin (Sakka), Mahagiri the house nat, and Bo Bo Gyi the guardian of each pagoda, kept in shrines at home, in shops and at pagodas. A deva-tier being venerated through the object — worship, not necromancy.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/palad-khik/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A carved or cast phallic rod, pocket-carried for luck, trade and protection — one of the oldest charm forms in the region, and one the tradition itself files two different ways.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/pha-yan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A cloth square or banner drawn with grids, figures and script — hung over a door, folded into a pocket, or worn. The drawn designs have their own index here: /yant.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phat-ban-menh/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pendant of one of eight Buddhas and bodhisattvas, chosen by the wearer's Chinese zodiac year. The eight-figure set is Japanese Shingon practice, sold today as jewellery across China and Vietnam and, thinly, in Thailand under 'Chinese zodiac birth-year Buddha'. It is not the Thai weekday birthday Buddha.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phaya-khrut/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The king of birds, wings spread — authority, safe passage, and debt that dares not follow. Cast in metal from pendant to standard.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phaya-nak/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pendant or small cast figure of the naga, serpent-lord of water in Thai-Lao belief and keeper of the Mekong. The most fashionable deity object of the present decade, asked for luck and favour.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phaya-tao-ruean/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The house-turtle amulet in the line of Luang Pu Liu — slow money that stays, long life, a household that holds. Blessed object, no resident.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-bang-pendant/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pendants and miniature casts of the Phra Bang, the standing two-palms-forward Buddha that is the palladium of Laos and gave Luang Prabang its name. Nobody home, nothing owed.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-chiang-saen/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lanna bronze Buddhas the trade groups as พระเชียงแสน, sorted into Sing 1, 2 and 3 by face, ushnisha and robe flap; from altar images down to wearable 'ong choi' pieces.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-hu-yan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A Lopburi-style tablet from the cache at Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, Lopburi: a Buddha seated flat in meditation whose ears run down to the shoulders, which is the name. Mostly chin alloy. Held for invulnerability. Nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-khanaen/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A small amulet made to tally a batch: one counting piece stands for a fixed number of main pieces, and it is made smaller so the two never mix. Nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-khong/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A Hariphunchai fired-earth tablet from the cache at Wat Phra Khong Ruesi in Lamphun, the stockier twin of the พระรอด: a seated Buddha under bodhi leaves. The name คง (endure) is why the trade reads it as a คงกระพัน amulet.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-kring/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A small cast Buddha with a pellet sealed inside — shake it and it chimes. Cast in bronze or nawaloha in the Chinese-Tibetan medicine-Buddha line.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-kru/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

An amulet recovered from a sealed temple cache (กรุ) — fired earth or chin alloy more often than powder, with the crust and mineral bloom of centuries in the chamber. Age is the whole question; the surface is the testimony.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-nang-phaya/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A triangular fired-clay tablet from the cache at Wat Nang Phaya, Phitsanulok: a Maravijaya Buddha with a full chest and slender arms, the queen of amulets and one of the Benjaphakhi five. Nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-phikkhanet/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pendant or small cast image of Ganesha, the elephant-headed remover of obstacles and patron of the arts, venerated in Thailand inside Buddhist practice as much as Hindu.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-phong-bai-lan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pressed from the ash of burnt palm-leaf manuscripts — the same leaves this archive catalogues, at a later moment of their life. A treatise here gives the recipe outright: inscribe five leaves with katha, burn, mix with lacquer, roll.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-phong-suphan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A triangular fired-clay tablet from the prang cache at Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, Suphan Buri: a Maravijaya Buddha with a U Thong face. Called powder, made of earth. One of the Benjaphakhi five; nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-phrom/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pendant or small cast image of four-faced Brahma, the god Thais credit with writing destiny and granting wishes. The template nearly every pendant copies is the Erawan Hotel shrine image at Ratchaprasong.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-pidta/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A figure with hands over its eyes — the shut-away senses. Pressed powder or cast metal; worked for warding and for wealth that slips past notice.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-rahu/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Rahu swallowing the moon, classically carved into a one-eyed coconut shell — the astrological remedy worn by those in a Rahu period. This site's almanac pages keep the sky half of the story.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-rot/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A small fired-clay tablet from the cache at Wat Mahawan, Lamphun: a seated Buddha inside a ring of bodhi leaves, the oldest of the Benjaphakhi five. The name means the one who escapes harm. Nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-siwali/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The arahant who never lacked — staff over shoulder, umbrella and kettle — carried for provision that arrives on time. Statue and pendant, venerated as an ordinary amulet.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-somdet/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A rectangular pressed tablet of sacred powder bearing a seated Buddha in an arch — the most copied, most collected amulet form there is. Power is the maker's barami and the consecration; nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/phra-sum-ko/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A fired-clay tablet from the Thung Setthi caches at Kamphaeng Phet: a seated Buddha under an arch curved like the letter ก, in Sukhothai style. The rarest of the Benjaphakhi five. The trade's saying for it is 'have me and you will not be poor'. Nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/pixiu/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Chinese wealth beast: dragon head, lion body, wings, and no anus, so gold goes in and never out. Worn as a jade pendant, bracelet or ring, or set as a pair at a shop door, it is one of the biggest sellers in Thai-Chinese retail under ปี่เซียะ. The vault's class vocabulary does not place it.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/pla-taphian/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A pair of carp cut from thin metal sheet and inscribed, hung up so that buying is easy and selling brisk — sharing its name with the woven palm-leaf fish mobile hung over Ayutthaya cradles.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/prachiat/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A small inscribed cloth rolled and tied on the head, neck or upper arm against harm — given to soldiers from the Thonburi period, seen today on boxers' arms. Power in the inscription; nobody home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/rajah/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Javanese-Malay written formula: Arabic letters, numerals, a wafaq square and symbols meaningful to the writer, set on paper, cloth, skin, metal or the body. Power sits in the writing and the writer — the Islamic-world counterpart of the Thai yan, and the thing a jimat usually carries.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/rian-kechi/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A struck coin-form medallion carrying a revered monk's portrait, name and temple, usually dated to the batch (รุ่น). The most datable of all forms — the coin itself says when.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/rup-lersi/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The tiger-skinned hermit sage — the tradition's own teacher-figure, honoured at every wai khru. A treatise in this corpus gives a moulding recipe: termite-mound earth and seven named leaves, shaped into the Great Lersi.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/rup-lo/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A small cast statue of a monk seated in meditation — the medallion's three-dimensional cousin, from pendant size up to the altar.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/sai-sin/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Raw white cotton thread held by the monks during paritta chanting, run round a house or a Buddha image, then cut and tied at the wrist as a blessing. Thai, Lao and Khmer alike; the chant is the power, nobody is home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/salika/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The paired myna birds of sweet speech — carried by sellers, suitors and anyone who must be believed. Usually a small couple of birds in metal or wood, or the yantra of them; the yant index here draws the design.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/si-phueng/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A wax or balm in a small tin, touched to lips or brow before speaking, selling, courting. The corpus's formulary holds attraction-wax recipes; what a given pot is depends on whose hands made it.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/somdet-chitralada/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The triangular somdej King Rama IX made and hand-pressed at Chitralada, given between 1965 and 1970 to soldiers, police, officials and civilians, each with a certificate.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/suea-yan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A shirt inscribed with yantra all over — in the old form, small prachiat cloths sewn into a garment — worn into battle or the ring for invulnerability and evasion. Power in the inscription; nobody home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/susuk/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

Gold, silver or diamond needles a bomoh sets under the skin — chin and cheeks most often — for beauty, allure, presence or invulnerability. Invisible except on a radiograph. Islam rules it haram; the wearer keeps food taboos and holds that the needles must come out before death.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/takrut/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A sheet of metal — or palm-leaf, or skin — inscribed with a yantra and rolled tight, worn on a cord at the waist or neck. Power lives in the inscription and the rite that closed it. The treatises this site keeps are full of what gets written inside.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/tangkal/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The Malay word for any object that wards — from a black thread on the wrist to a thorny branch over the door. It names a job (menangkal, to turn aside), not a form, which is why Malay Wikipedia files it with azimat and everyday speech keeps them apart: jimat is carried for luck, tangkal is set against a threat.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/thao-wessuwan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The northern guardian-king of the yaksha, club in hand — statue, pendant and gate-plaque. A deva venerated through the object: offerings and respect, not meals.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/tua-pek-kong/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The tutelary god of Southeast Asian Chinese communities, 'Grand Uncle': an old bearded man with staff and ingot, worn as a temple medallion or kept as an altar figure for trade and safety. A deva-tier resident venerated through the object, in the vault's sense, not a raised spirit. Thailand's Pun Thao Kong (本頭公) is the near relative.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/waan/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A plant of power — a rhizome or tuber grown, dried, carved or potted, its virtue in the species and the keeping. The one kind on this page that can still be alive; some keepers water theirs.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/waen-phirot/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A ring plaited from an inscribed, consecrated strip of paper, cloth or thread, its ends worked into the phirot knot, worn on a finger or the upper arm for invulnerability and evasion. Power in the inscription and the rite; nobody home.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/wua-thanu/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

A bull or buffalo figure — woven, moulded or cast — woken by katha to guard the house. The treatise gives it a shed, tells it what is wanted, and feeds it grass and water like a living beast; intruders are to be gored.

https://wichaa.net/amulets/kind/yan-lanna/2026-09-02T00:00:00Z

The northern yantra: grids, rings and figures written in Tai Tham (ตัวเมือง) script on cloth, in candles, or on metal. Power sits in the inscription and the rite, nobody home. The drawn designs from the treatises have their own index at wichaa.net/yant.