Both Uses of "mystic" in "A Great and Terrible Beauty"

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mystic
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A Great and Terrible Beauty
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They would have been mystics and healers, women who worked with herbs and delivered babies.†
Chpt 12

mystics = people said to comprehend reality using supernatural means
Supposedly they had access to a mystical world beyond this one, a place of many realms where they could work their magic.†
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mystical = relating to realities beyond scientific understanding OR inspiring a sense of wonder or mystery; or beyond human comprehension

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(1) (mystic)
a person who seeks or claims to have direct spiritual insight beyond ordinary understanding; or describing an experience that feels deeply spiritual, mysterious, or otherworldly

In common usage, mystic is more likely to be used in reference to a practitioner of a less mainstream religion than a more mainstream religion -- possibly because the former is more mysterious to the writer.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)