Blood sandalwood carved twelve zodiac bracelets play with wooden Buddhist beads Chinese style hand string handheld jewelry

“Twelve Reincarnations”
Antique dealer Du Heng received a blood sandalwood bracelet with twelve zodiac animals. Each wooden bead was engraved with a zodiac pattern and dipped in dark red paint. The seller said mysteriously: “This bracelet will recognize its owner. If you wear it for a long time, the zodiac animal will come alive.”

Du Heng just took it as a joke, but after wearing it, he began to have strange dreams – at midnight, the rat bead appeared in a dark shadow and gnawed the account book, and at dawn, the rabbit bead oozes tears and wets his cuffs. It was not until the night of the tiger that he woke up and found that the tiger bead was vibrating violently in his palm, and the face of himself in the mirror had tiger stripes.

After consulting ancient books, I learned that this was made by a Qing Dynasty alchemist using the ashes of twelve wrongfully dead people mixed with blood sandalwood. Each bead is looking for a substitute, and Du Heng’s birth date corresponds to the last vacant “dragon seat”.

(The meaning of the blood sandalwood bracelet with twelve zodiac animals: forced blessing eventually becomes a trap for taking over, and reincarnation is never a game of mercy)