NAKHON Secrets : The heady days of “Jatukham Fever” final yr, when sale of the over-sized Jatukham Ramathep medallions hit a record excessive, are clearly over.The massive amulets – particularly beloved by tuk-tuk drivers, gunmen and others in harmful professions – have been reputed to convey success. Some particular person medallions bought for tens of millions of baht and one woman was actually trampled to death in the rush to get hold of one medallion in a highly-anticipated new series.However, large overproduction coupled with waning curiosity quickly introduced the value down and quelled the fever.Just how much the bottom has fallen out of the Jatukham commerce was made evident on March 14, when villagers in Tambon Pak Nakhon in Nakhon Sri Thammarat’s Muang District discovered a pile of Jatukham amulets unceremoniously dumped under a tree.The reporter at the scene estimated there have been greater than 200,000 abandoned amulets.The find got here to light when Siriphen Bunchet, 33, told reporters that there was a huge pile of amulets underneath a tre