{
 "axis": "classes",
 "source": "wichaa-vault/_meta/vocab/classes.md",
 "vault_updated": "2026-07-22",
 "entries": [
  {
   "key": "phra_khrueang",
   "term": "พระเครื่อง",
   "roman": "phra khrueang",
   "en_gloss": "Buddhist amulet",
   "confidence": "high",
   "resident": "none",
   "upkeep": "none",
   "provenance_sensitivity": "low",
   "definition": "A votive Buddha image or famous-monk amulet. Power = the barami of the maker plus the consecration (ปลุกเสก). No occupant. Its provenance question is purely one of genuineness and market value, not of spiritual safety.",
   "members": [
    "สมเด็จ",
    "พระพุทธ",
    "พระปิดตา",
    "พระผง",
    "พระกริ่ง",
    "เหรียญหลวง",
    "พระสมเด็จ"
   ],
   "excludes": [
    "องค์สมเด็จ",
    "บาทสมเด็จ"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "yantra_wattu",
   "term": "วัตถุมงคล (ยันต์)",
   "roman": "wattu mongkhon",
   "en_gloss": "blessed/inscribed object",
   "confidence": "high",
   "resident": "none",
   "upkeep": "none",
   "provenance_sensitivity": "low",
   "definition": "Takrut, yantra cloth, blessed medallions — power in the inscription and the rite. Impersonal.",
   "members": [
    "ตะกรุด",
    "ผ้ายันต์",
    "ยันต์",
    "วัตถุมงคล",
    "ล็อกเกต"
   ],
   "note": "ONE EXCEPTION worth flagging: a ตะกรุดหนังหน้าผากผีตายโหง (takrut of skin from a violent-death corpse) is a spirit-bearing object wearing this class's form. Form does not settle class; the making does. See [[prai]]."
  },
  {
   "key": "khong_thammachat",
   "term": "เครื่องรางธรรมชาติ",
   "roman": "khrueang rang thammachat",
   "en_gloss": "natural talisman",
   "confidence": "medium",
   "needs_verification": true,
   "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.",
   "members": [
    "เหล็กไหล",
    "กะลาตาเดียว",
    "คดกะลา",
    "เขี้ยว",
    "งาช้าง"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "thep_thewada",
   "term": "เทพ / เทวดา",
   "roman": "thep / thewada",
   "en_gloss": "deva-tier resident",
   "confidence": "high",
   "resident": "deva",
   "upkeep": "veneration",
   "provenance_sensitivity": "medium",
   "definition": "A celestial or Hindu-derived being is venerated through the object — Thao Wessuwan, Garuda (พญาครุฑ), Rahu, arguably Nang Kwak. Receives offerings and respect but is not a raised ghost; the relationship is closer to worship than to parenting. The \"cleanest\" spirit-bearing tier.",
   "members": [
    "ท้าวเวสสุวรรณ",
    "พญาครุฑ",
    "ราหู",
    "นางกวัก",
    "เทพ"
   ],
   "excludes": [
    "กรุงเทพ",
    "เทพย์ สาร",
    "เทพย สาร"
   ],
   "distinct_from": [
    "kuman",
    "prai"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "kuman",
   "term": "กุมารทอง",
   "roman": "kuman thong",
   "en_gloss": "raised child-spirit",
   "confidence": "high",
   "resident": "raised_spirit",
   "upkeep": "feeding",
   "provenance_sensitivity": "high",
   "definition": "A child-spirit bound to an effigy and RAISED — fed sweet red drink, rice and toys, named, spoken to, asked for help as a member of the household. A reciprocal, parental bond. Neglect is the failure mode: a hungry, ignored kuman turns mischievous or leaves. Not \"dark\" in itself, but a bound spirit of the dead, and its history — who raised it, what it was taught — travels with it.",
   "members": [
    "กุมารทอง",
    "กุมาร"
   ],
   "distinct_from": [
    "thep_thewada",
    "prai"
   ]
  },
  {
   "key": "prai",
   "term": "พราย",
   "roman": "prai",
   "en_gloss": "necromantic ghost-object",
   "confidence": "high",
   "resident": "ghost",
   "upkeep": "feeding_and_closing",
   "provenance_sensitivity": "high",
   "definition": "Houses or is rendered from the ghost of a violent or untimely death, classically a woman dead in childbirth (แม่นางพราย) — น้ำมันพราย (prai oil), นางพราย, some ลูกกรอก. The most powerful and most hazardous tier: hungry, coercive, and requiring both feeding AND correct closing when set down. The tradition holds this class, above all others, as the one not to acquire without its full history.",
   "members": [
    "น้ำมันพราย",
    "นางพราย",
    "พราย",
    "ลูกกรอก"
   ],
   "distinct_from": [
    "kuman",
    "thep_thewada"
   ],
   "note": "ลูกกรอก (a preserved-foetus spirit) sits on the kuman/prai line — raised like a kuman but made from untimely death like a prai. Listed here as the more cautious placement; a knower may split it."
  },
  {
   "key": "hun_phayon",
   "term": "หุ่นพยนต์",
   "roman": "hun phayon",
   "en_gloss": "animated effigy / servant-golem",
   "confidence": "high",
   "resident": "animated",
   "upkeep": "veneration",
   "provenance_sensitivity": "medium",
   "definition": "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. Ms 6983 gives the recipe outright: ตำราสร้างหุ่นพยนต์ แบบที่ ๑ / ๒, beside the ritual knife (มีดหมอ) used to make it. The courtroom Hanuman — held in the mouth, given commands — is one of these.",
   "members": [
    "หุ่นพยนต์",
    "พยนต์"
   ],
   "distinct_from": [
    "thep_thewada",
    "kuman"
   ]
  }
 ]
}