mystic
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While deathly ill in 1373, a devout 30-year-old English mystic known as Julian of Norwich had a series of 16 visions of the divine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Bailey Rose Quiñones is a mystic earth nun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
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
The other boys did not worry, for they had other things to think about—but for the ugly one it was the whole of an obscure and mystic life.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Formula 1 is about physics and not mystics.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Muslims ruled large parts of India from the early 13th to the 19th century, and during this era Muslim preachers and Sufi mystics actively proselytized for Islam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Myanmar has a rich culture of fortune-telling, and many believe the future can be discerned by mystics.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Unlike some of the bolder mystics of medieval Europe, however, she is relatively circumspect about her powers and thus attracts little unwanted attention.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
Christian mystics devoted much energy to deciphering the number 666, said by John the Apostle to designate the name of the Beast of the Apocalypse, the Antichrist.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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