2. In conjuring, an illusion popularized by Houdini, wherein an assitant is placed in a sealed crate and the magician stands on top of the crate, brings up a curtain, and changes places with the assitant in what appears to be mere seconds. There are many variations of the effect.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...