fakir|fakirs in English

noun

[fa·kir || fə'kɪr /'feɪkɪə ,'fæ-]

Hindu ascetic; Muslim monk

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1. The best Conjurers, magicians and palmists in India are fakirs

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4. Nikia and other Bayaderes give the fakirs water from the sacred pool

5. "Canoeists in Cairo”, noted Neeti Sethi Bose and Fakir Hassen, "belt out Indian film songs.

6. It does not encourage religious authorities to sink into meditation, as do the Hindu fakirs.

7. A monkey's paw with a spell put on it by an old fakir can grant three wishes for a person.

8. "The water comes to rest on the top of the nanofilaments like a fakir sitting on a bed of nails." (Whatever that means...

9. They are usually accompanied by a youthful disciple, called a "Chela," a boy of from 10 to 15 years of age, who will become a fakir himself unless something occurs to change his career.

10. A Bonze asserts that Fo is a God, that he was foretold by fakirs, that he was born of a white elephant, and that every Bonze can by certain grimaces make a Fo

11. He considers that “the true affinities of the perfect lay with the ascetic teachers of the East, the bonzes and fakirs of China or India, the adepts of the Orphic mysteries, or the teachers of Gnosticism.”

12. We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.