A small effigy of a person, often very primitive in design and linked to that person through a drop of blood or a lock of the hair being included in the doll. Its usual purpose is to control or cause harm to the person it’s linked to.
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...