hermit

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In the 2009 film “Get Low,” he was a backwoods hermit who staged his own funeral.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

Wildlife enthusiast Fred, who had just turned six at the time of filming in the summer and autumn of 2024, enjoyed spotting scorpions, snakes, monkeys, monitor lizards, eagles, hermit crabs, geckos and flying lemurs.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

Much less familiar is Guglielmo of Malavalle, a twelfth century hermit venerated by the Augustinians for defeating a dragon using a simple wooden staff shaped like a pitchfork.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

And there's a deep-sea hermit crab, living not inside a shell, but a sea star the team can't immediately identify.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

For the next years, I was the nearest thing to a hermit in the Norfolk Prison Colony.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey