Word: fakirism
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Astounding to those Britons who think St. Gandhi a crack-brained fakir is the fact that the Royal Commission's conclusions are substantially those which the Mahatma has trumpeted for years...
...Winston Churchill has denounced me as 'a half-naked, seditious fakir,' " observed Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi, nine-tenths-naked at Calcutta last week. "It has become the fashion to laugh at my loin cloth. I would like to explain what it means to me and why I wear...
Anon a cobra, no pretty worm of Nilus,* creeps out of nowhere at the feet of that most famed snake charmer of Egypt. It raises its head and a length of body clear of the ground, quite resembling a rat terrier expectantly sitting up for a titbit. As the fakir puffs his cheeks in hissing whistle, the cobra puffs its hood and lazily sways to the sibilancies...
...stimuli, and perhaps react directly to seductive vibrations. More probably their swaying-it is no dance-is a conditioned reflex. Charmers feed their snakes well, in India with milk, flour balls and meat (frogs). And it is doubtless with mounting hope of meals that snakes raise themselves to the fakir's minor music. Charmers who have tried their art in U. S. zoos and serpentaria have always failed, despite all their wheezing and whining...
Laila Hanoun, Hindu fakir, has just prophesied that New York will be inundated by a great flood twenty years from now, that the Romanoffs will be restored to the throne of Russia, and much more. It must be true, for the miracles have already begun to occur. The lowly Red Sox, nobody's toast, have left the cellar. Not only have they left the cellar but they are tied for fifth place with the Senators, and are what the sporting page chooses to call "perilously close to fourth place...