A fully-initiated male priest of Voudoun who presides over the rites and gives counsel and magickal aid to worshipers of that religious faith. He has received the sacred rattle, or Asson. The term is derived from the African Nganga (chief priest) combined with the prefix Houn-, a Fon word that means "spirit."
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...