Into this otherworld he drags his twin brother Simon (also Highmore) and older, skeptical sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger, such a sweetheart in In America).
Verlyn Flieger in msnbc.com Originally they were simply pierced to emit light, and were carried to scare away the spirits from the Otherworld who could enter the mortal realm,said Verlyn Flieger, a mythology specialist at the University of Maryland.