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What is a fakir?

What is a fakir? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Islam) A faqir, owning no personal property and usually living solely off alms.
  2. (Hindu, more loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
  3. (derogatory) Someone who takes advantage of the gullible through fakery, especially of a spiritual or religious nature.
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If you think, and think rightly, the fakir does not get you.
Unfortunately the fakir did not improve the longer he stayed with us.
It was a foregone conclusion that they would consider him a fakir and a crook.
There were dancers that shimmered in costumes of gold, a fakir, and a belly dancer.
The Hindu fakir would sit for days without food or water, or bury himself alive as a kind of spiritual observance, a separation of mind from body.
She went on to land one of the lead roles in the French musical L'apprenti fakir, appearing on stage with Jean Marais.

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