occultist

From occult +‎ -ist.

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occultist (plural occultists)

1. A person who practises or studies the occultism; a practitioner of, or person learned in, the occult.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 68:

     Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.

   • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 46:

     In the early 1930s, he fell under the spell of a wife-beating, alcoholic, Austrian occultist called Karl Maria Wiligut and a Dutch prehistorian called Herman Wirth, whose views further fed his fantastical illusions.

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