Supposedly supported by the Big Sword and White Lotus Societies, the attack would be the last of the societies' anti-foreigner campaigns as several of their leaders are executed and the remaining members return to daily lives.
Songling claims the trick was a favorite of the White Lotus Society and that the magician must have learnt it from them, though he gives no indication where (or how) he learnt this.
The White Lotus Society primarily refers to the White Lotus, a Buddhist sect which later became a secret society.
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White Lotus, a modern Buddhist organisation in the Tibetan Drikung Kagyu tradition, located in Rochester, New York, now renamed 'White Lotus Buddhist Center'.
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