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fakir

Literally ‘one who is in need’, whether physical or spiritual, the term has come to denote need of and dependence on God, and so is used for a religious mendicant. It originally referred to a Muslim religious mendicant, but in India is now a general term for an ascetic (see asceticism).

The fakirs of India are Hindu ascetics, who belong to strict religious orders, but the term ‘fakir’ is also applied to wandering illusionists and performers.
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Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?
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As they went they seemed to wake something, as one startles a bird, in the deeper corner between the study and the main building; and again they saw the white-robed fakir slide out of the shadow, and slip round towards the front door.
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I found him in the hands of a fakir, and took the liberty of running him just as he was sent over.
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