marabout

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• No -- probably also a marabout, a kind of juggler or sorcerer. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
• I take it, must be the culminating point, the _dernier mot_, of maraboutic enlightenment. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
• But the Nubian had the advantage of a mirror from the brilliant reflection which the surface of the highly-polished shield now afforded, by means of which he beheld, to his alarm and surprise, that the marabout raised his head gently from the ground, so as to survey all around him, moving with a well-adjusted precaution which seemed entirely inconsistent with a state of ebriety. The Talisman
• Here, too, lie the cemeteries: the Jewish, fronting the main road, with a decent enclosure; that of the Christians, framed in a wire fence and containing a few wooden crosses, imitation broken columns and tinsel wreaths; Arab tombs, scattered over a large undefined tract of brown earth, and clustering thickly about some white-domed maraboutic monument, whose saintly relics are desirable companionship for the humbler dead. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
• Marabouts play a unique role in Senegalese society: in orthodox Muslim communities, marabouts are teachers of the faith.
• All faces were turned towards the sacred city, as Mussulmans turn when they kneel to pray, in mosque or in desert; and the white slabs, narrow or broad, long or short, ornamental or plain, flat or roofed with fantastic maraboutic domes, were placed very close together. The Golden Silence
• Many Guineans rely on their traditional spirit beliefs and rely on marabouts and fetishes in times of trouble.
• Many Mauritanians have faith in the supernatural powers of holy men called marabouts, or murabitun.
• We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin. Les Miserables
• The naked vulture neck with its pouch-like appendage of brick-red hue; the silken feathers of bluish white under the tail -- those precious plumes well-known and worn by the ladies of many lands under the appellation of _marabout feathers_ -- all were recognised at a glance. The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"