mystic
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In Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, an Irish mapmaker and his family endure poverty and take strength from a connection to the mystic past.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
“No other community on the face of the globe has given rise to half as many mystic, philosophical, psychological, occult, consciousness-raising, therapeutic and alternative creeds as 20th century L.A.,”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
It was this identification with Derbyshire that led Tutti to write Re-Sisters in 2002, which also focused on another non-conformist woman, the medieval Norfolk mystic Margery Kempe.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2025
Healy Lake members, Combs said, have long considered their dogs to be mystic companions.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024
Another man with his hand raised said, “I heard the Persians hired one of those wandering mystic types.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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