Name for a tribal magician or spiritual leader who uses various magickal and/or spiritual means to help cure diseases and psychic or magickal attacks. Also used in a derogatory fashion to describe someone who uses non-standard medical techniques.
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...