Hindu or Muslim ascetic who lives by begging.

a deceiver of true believers

a holy mendicant, Chand beseeched him to go to his house

an initiate in a mendicant Sufi order

a type of Indian mystic, that is an Indian from India not the U

religious mendicant living on charity

An Indian holy man, usually called a sadhu, who is allegedly capable of magical and miraculous feats, but survives by begging. In the Islamic cultures a fakir turns his back on the material world to follow Allah as a beggar.

A magician who specializes in fire walking, lying on a bed of nails, hammering spikes into his nose, etc., because other kinds of magic require too much practice.

A fakir or faqir (Arabic: فقیر 'poor') is a Sufi, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. Dictionary.com & Wiktionary.org Derived from faqr (فقر Arabic), Lit: poverty.