Lei Ting curse charm

Modern machine-made Lei Ting curse charms containing Taoist imagery in Delft, Netherlands.

Lei Ting curse charms (traditional Chinese: 符咒錢; simplified Chinese: 符咒钱; pinyin: fú zhòu qián), or Lôi Đình curse charms,[1] are a type of Chinese and Vietnamese numismatic charms,[2] these charms can be described as a talismanic coin as they are often based on Chinese cash coins but can also have round holes instead of square ones and may also be shaped like gourd charms.

Lei Ting curse charms contain inscriptions that request the Taoist God of Thunder Leigong to expel evil spirits and maleficent bogies through a magical spell incantation which usually calls upon Leigong by claiming that the inscription is in fact an order from Laozi himself.[3] In some cases these coin charms request that Leigong should act "with the speed of the law" - “急急如律令.”

  1. ^ Greenbaum 2006, p. 15.
  2. ^ Chinese Coinage Website (Charm.ru) – List of illustrations wanted for F.A. Turk’s - INTRODUCTION TO CHINESE COIN-LIKE CHARMS by Scott Semans, Vladimir Belyaev, and Steve Young. Retrieved: 02 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Amulette à invocation de Leiting - Leiting invocation charm". François Thierry de Crussol (TransAsiart) (in French). 14 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2018.