About a century ago, there was an outbreak of a cholera epidemic which claimed hundreds of lives in Pak Nam Pho Market. The Chinese migrants burnt the Yantra; talisman papers, from those 2 shrines and drank the ashes in believe that it would prevent and cure them from getting cholera. The Chinese who drank the ashes were not infected and recovered rapidly. This event had made both Chao Pho Thepharak shrine and Chao Mae Taptim Shrine famous throughout Thailand.