Invulnerability · คงกระพันชาตรี
ว่านกาสัก / พญากาสัก
Wan Kasak / Phaya Kasak
Gasaak / Lord Gasaak Waan
Ritual purpose
Primary: คงกระพันชาตรี and protection from edged weapons. Secondary: carried protection, household protection, sak-yant ink potency.
Botanical
Leea macrophylla Roxb. (English: Hathikana); aliases เขืองหูช้าง, ตองต้วบ, ตาลปัตรฤาษี, เสือนั่งร่ม, เสือร้องไห้. BanVanThai lists green and red forms.
Origin / legend
Pantip archive lore: sak-yant tattoo ink mixtures should not lack ว่านกาสัก; the alias เสือร้องไห้ comes from a belief that even a tiger cannot bite into a person empowered by the herb — forum lore, not a formal myth.
Consecration method (ปลุกเสก)
Eat, carry, or grind/mix the leaf and tuber with tattoo ink; consecrate the tuber with the katha 7 times before use. Old childcare lore: a male newborn's bedding leaf was later powdered and fed to the child for lifelong หนังเหนียว (reported tradition, not verified instruction).
Katha (คาถา)
อุทธัง อุทโธ นะโมพุทธายะ
utthang uttho na mo phut tha ya
Opaque Pali-like protective formula ending with homage to the Buddha; recited 7 times (BanVanThai).
สัพพะกาสัก อิกะวิติ อิทธิ นะโมพุทธายะ
sappha ka sak i ka wi ti itthi namo phutthaya
"All/complete Kasak, power/accomplishment, homage to the Buddha" — Facebook group post titled "พระ คาถา พญากาสัก" frames it as highly sacred/powerful.
Application
Eat leaf or tuber/root; carry the plant material; grind into tattoo ink; plant at home for protection.
Taboos / restrictions (ข้อห้าม)
- Sources disagree by spelling and red/green variant forms — identify the plant carefully before use.
Herbwanthai's Facebook post also adds folk-medicine claims (tuber mixed with other herbs for venereal disease/sores; root as red dye) outside the invulnerability frame — noted for completeness, not as site advice.
Sources
Demonstrations & transcripts