the occult

noun

: supernatural powers or practices and the things (such as gods, ghosts, and magic) that are connected with them

He's a student of the occult.

religion, mythology, and the occult

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Spiritual leaders are becoming political, and political actors have veered into the occult. —

Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025 Read More: The Witch Trials That America Forgot The partisans of both the Enlightenment and Evangelicalism, with otherwise little in common, might share a blanching at that description of the occult project. —

Ed Simon, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024 Palm reading became popular in the United States, particularly in the nineteenth century, as a general vogue for séance, mediumship, spirit photographs, and the occult took hold. —

The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024 Her interest in mysteries and the occult began in the metaphysical section at her local Borders. —

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