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Recent Examples of occultist
Set in Astraea, a bioluminescent city that worships the stars, Florescentia follows Lucia Fairfax, an inventor and occultist reeling from the loss of her husband due to one of her rituals.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
Vampyr focuses on a young man and occultist (Nicolas de Gunzburg) who attempts to free a French village from the curse of a bloodthirsty fiend.
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Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
He was given a chance to do a try-out performance, which was promptly ruled occultist.
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Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
Vampyr focuses on a young man and occultist (Nicolas de Gunzburg) who attempts to free a French village from the curse of a bloodthirsty fiend.
—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
He was given a chance to do a try-out performance, which was promptly ruled occultist.
—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for occultist
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Of course, the commercial ends in climactic fashion, as He-Man lifts Skeletor above his head for the grand finale and the sorcerer erupts into his legendary cackle.
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In the first Mortal Kombat film, Outworld sorcerer Shang Tsung (Chin Han) seeks to eliminate Earth's champions ahead of the ultimate tournament between realms.
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That’s more than can be said for the sequel, which is just driven by pandering, up to and including bringing back characters who’ve died, usually with the help of necromancer Quan Chi (Damon Herriman).
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Who to face this strange, ancient magic but the last of the Grim Lords, the sleeping necromancer Kaiataris?
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My colleague Glen Levy was at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta yesterday to watch Spain, led by its young magician, take on Saudi Arabia.
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Bayer and Diaconis — who as a teenager ran away from home to apprentice with a magician specializing in card tricks, before becoming a renowned mathematician — didn’t just prove the existence of a precise cutoff in a real-world system.
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For years Johnson, the disheveled political magus, was the golden boy of Britain's Conservative Party.
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But other students are there for Wittgenstein the sage, the magus, the riddler—the man who left Russell bewildered by a turn to mysticism at the end of a book that was supposed to be about logic.
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But his voodoo streak of good luck finally ran out when ICE lugged him.
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Banks threatened to burn down Del Rey’s house with voodoo.
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This young adult fantasy follows a 16-year-old who discovers a magical attack and realizes this new world of demons and mages has a connection to her mother’s death.
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Or this one, where the mage Nic Cage totes Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha.
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Produced by Diablo Cody, Forbidden Fruits stars Lili Reinhart as Apple, the leader of a cult of witches in a Texas shopping mall.
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Conjuring Nightfall For the witches and lovers of nostalgic decor, look no further than the Conjuring Nightfall collection.
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Movie characters making appearances in the maze will include blues musician Sammie Moore, Louisiana Creole hoodoo conjurer Annie, white-passing Black woman Mary, mysterious and magnetic dancer Pearline, club bouncer Cornbread and vampires Remmick, Bert and Joan.
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Their conjurers, who refuse to accept the rules of the real world, can also be great fun to read about.
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“Occultist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/occultist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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