Looking at the current popularity of amulets, ethnologist Chang Hsun says the opening to such fads came with the lifting of martial law in the 1980s, since which previously banned superstitions have enjoyed a resurgence.
對於時下的符咒熱潮，中央研究院民族所研究員張珣認為，符咒的大行其道主要是因為解嚴之後，過去屬於迷信秘術、會被取締的符咒浮上台面，可以大張旗鼓的公開授徒。