cabala

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Bach was into puzzles, numerology, and all kinds of musical cabala, so the nuttiest idea of all about his tuning might well be right.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2010

Hunch-players in Italy's weekly lottery often consult a handy handbook called the cabala which gives the magic numbers associated with certain objects and events.

From Time Magazine Archive

These works, and the other 74 tales in the collection, have become secular cabala, subject to endless sifting and interpretation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here she accumulated Theosophy's assorted bag of borrowings from Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, the cabala.

From Time Magazine Archive

These cabala are held in high esteem by the learned, and the hundreds of fortune-tellers in the streets of Chinese towns practice their art on the basis of these mysteries.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch