cabala
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Bach was into puzzles, numerology, and all kinds of musical cabala, so the nuttiest idea of all about his tuning might well be right.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2010
Hunch-players in Italy's weekly lottery often consult a handy handbook called the cabala which gives the magic numbers associated with certain objects and events.
From Time Magazine Archive
The consumption tax would drastically reduce the number of exclusions, deductions and credits that now make the Internal Revenue Code a cabala for tax lawyers and C.P.A.s.
From Time Magazine Archive
These works, and the other 74 tales in the collection, have become secular cabala, subject to endless sifting and interpretation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet 'tis no more known in the world than the cabala of the Jews, the more's the pity; and therefore 'tis not detested, chastised, and punished as 'tis fit it should be.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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