Within the My Date with a Vampire series, there are numerous gadgets being used by the characters. The most memorable ones are probably the ones that are employed by Ma Siu Ling. A lot of these gadgets are modified from historical magical spells of the Tao branch. Unlike spells that are used by western stories of witchcraft (which involves a magic wand and an incantation), fictional Tao spells do not require wands. Tao spells are mostly FuJau. Fu is a physical gear (much like a wand) that consist mostly of yellow paper (or the modern plastic ones used in the TV series) and it has instructions, name of the spell and and name of the receiver written on it. To put a spell on another person or physical body, most of the time, you would need to stick the Fu on the person or the thing. In other circumstances, you can also burn the Fu in order to send the spell out to something or someone far away. Hence, Chinese Tao spells tend to require much higher level of martial art skills (to stick the spell on the person) compare to western usage of a wand as a pointer (which requires higher shooting skills). Jau is the incantation said by the monk or the spell conjurer. The power of a Jau is mostly dependent of the Tao level of the users. Also most spell conjurer are not great spell maker. Just like most warriors are not great ironsmiths. In My Date with a Vampire, Uncle Kau (Ho Ying Kau) is a great writer/maker of Fu, but Siu Ling is the one who mostly uses the Fu and mutters the Jau when she fights against other evil beings. This can explain why she needs to buy most FuJau and magical gadgets from Uncle Kau, even though she has learned the Tao ways for years. Choose from the above menu to view more information on specific gadgets. Gear Catalog features the gears and items created by humans. Book of FuJau has a list of spells utilized in the series. Magical Items contains items created by non-humans (Poon Gu, etc. ) |
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