An old superstition says that it’s dangerous to wake someone who is sleepwalking. This fear is due to a belief that the soul leaves the body during sleep. This explained people’s dreams in which they traveled freely anywhere around the world. If you woke a sleepwalker, the soul would be absent, and the person would die.
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...