this is from: http://www.luckymojo.com/PenisAmulets.html [INLINE] PENIS AMULETS FROM THAILAND The Thai name for a penis amulet is palad khik, which means "honorable surrogate penis." They are worn by boys and men on a waist-string under the clothes, off-center from the real penis, in the hope that they will attract and absorb any magical injury directed toward the generative organs. It is not uncommon for a man to wear several palad khiks at one time, one to increase gambling luck, for instance, another to attract women, and a third for invulnerability from bullets and knives. With the exception of style # 7 shown below, women in Thailand do not generally wear palad khiks, nor is there a Thai equivalent of the vulva amulet for them to use -- although a circular disk amulet called a chaping is worn by young girls to protect their genitals from evil forces. The palad khik amulet is said to have originated in the Shiva linga of India and to have been imported to Thailand by Cambodian monks in the 8th century AD. Early styles of palad khik bear inscribed invocations, entreaties, and praises to Shiva; later ones combine these with interlineated invocations and praises to Buddha; modern ones bear uniformly Buddhist inscriptions, invariably written in an old form of script that cannot be read by contemporary Thais. Palad khik amulets carved from wood, bone, or horn are made by monks who specialize in their manufacture, and the efficacy of a given amulet is dependant on the charisma and reputation of its creator. The lettering of the inscriptions is a matter of serious ritual and can take several days to complete. Cast metal palad khiks do not always bear inscriptions, but they may carry the additional symbolism embodied in an animal holding the penis. [INLINE] Penis amulet #1 is 1 1/2" long and cast in bronze. It is in the form of an erect penis with the crouching rear quarters of a lion, its tail arched over its back to form a loop for hanging. It is decorated with Buddhist motifs and ancient Thai lettering. The crouching aminal design is reminiscent of penis amulets of the late Roman era, but there is a distinctly Asian character to the ornamentation and lettering. [INLINE] Penis amulet #2 is 1 1/2 inches long and cast in sterling silver. (It is also available in bronze.) This amulet depicts Hanuman, the Monkey God of the Hindus, crouched upon an erect penis, his tail arched over his back to form a hanging loop. When you turn the amulet over, you can see that Hanuman has his own small erect penis on the underside of the charm. This is one of the CUTEST amulets i have ever seen in my entire life. I was so taken with it that i was moved to KISS IT THREE TIMES -- right before the eyes of the rather amused old gay man who sold it to me. This amulet is cute the way girls say the word cute: it is Kee-yooooooooot. It is, in fact, adorable. [INLINE] Penis amulet #3 is 2" long and cast in brass. It is in the form of a tiger treading the shaft of a penis. Like the monkey on the Hanuman charm, the tiger is equipped with his own small penis and testicles on the underside of the amulet. Srangely, the tiger's penis is human, not feline, and it proportionately quite large. [INLINE] Penis amulet #4 is 3/4" long and cast in pewter. The penis, which bears no inscriptions, emerges from coiled snail shell, creating a subtle visual pun on the appearance of a snail. A friend who saw this amulet asked, "What's it for? To prevent premature ejaculation?" Frankly, i have no idea. [INLINE] Penis amulet #5 is 2" long and cast in bronze. It depicts a crocodile surmounting a large, uninscribed penis, the downturned tail of the animal forming a hanging loop. Unlike the monkey and tiger amulets, the crocodile has no testicles or penis of its own. [INLINE] Another handsome Thai penis amulet is #6, hand-carved of black buffalo horn. It is 2 1/4" long and is lightly inscribed with Thai script. Inside each one there is a mystery inclusion, a bead or seed that rattles when the amulet is shaken. [INLINE] Palad khik #7 is 2 3/4 inches long. It is hand-carved from jackfruit wood and inscribed with Bhuddist invocations. On the penis a naked woman is bent backward in the yoga position called "the bridge." This style of palad khik is the only one carried by women, who place it in their purses to deter purse-snatchers and ward off assults by men. [INLINE] Penis amulet #8, although usually is made of brass, is shown here cast in white plastic resin. It is 1 3/4 inches long and is simlar to the lion-haunched and inscribed style #1 amulet except that the attitude of the penis is "perkier" and the testicles are so large that they hang down well below the haunches. The addition of an eye on each side of the glans and a flaring corona evocative of ears gives this palad khik the look of a cute child's toy, a little bunny-penis, as it were. Penis amulet #9 is a bit smaller than the other metal ones, and the crouching black panther it bears is similar in concept to the tiger in style #3, but this one was sculpted by a better artist and is very naturalistic in detail; when cast in dark patina bronze, the panther looks quite black. In addition, the penis is very obviously uncircumcised. Penis amulet #10 features a strangely attractive smiling lizard half-asleep on the penis. Surprisingly, on close inspection the lizard is clearly seen to have two symmetrically arrayed tails. My Thai infomrant tells me that this is a visual reference to another Thai lucky symbol, the "mating lizards," which represent fertility and prosperity. Other hand-carved palad khik amulets i have collected include the Hanuman monkey charm carved of jackfruit wood, a smaller version of the yoga woman in black-stained wood, a plain rosewood amulet which is lightly inscribed and contains a rattle, and one of polished white bone, inscribed but without a rattle. The metal amulets, each cast in a different colour, make a lovely aesthetic complement to my copper Indescribable Lucky Charm and i happily keep them all together with my bronze foliated Roman penis amulet in a rusty iron wall-altar to reinforce the metallic theme. Perhaps a gold yoni amulet is in my future? ____________________________________________________ To order Thai Penis Amulets from the Lucky Mojo Curio Co. 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