That reminds me of when I was a handyman for some NYC landlords who bought 43 houses in Buffalo's university district. Some of their Chinese grad students called me because their washing machine was full of dirty water and wouldn't start the spin cycle or empty out the water. I looked at it, and told them I know an old Indian trick. I waved my hands over the machine, ad libbed some incantations, closed the top, and voila! Immediately it began to spin and empty the water. The grad students' jaws all hit the floor at the same time. They looked at each other, looked at me, stammered about that's impossible... Finally somebody asked me how I did that. "Close the lid," I said, and left them enlightened.