The development of shih-kan-tang tablets, which originally were solely for deflecting malefic forces at the entrance to a road, also reveals an evolution of talismanic function.
厭勝物功能被轉換的情形，也同樣發生在石敢當身上。石敢當原被視為對付路沖良方，起源於五代，至宋流傳日廣，目前以琉球、澎湖為多。